As Iran marks Information Technology Day, attention turns to a towering figure in human history: Khwarazmi, the 9th-century ...

Algebra is a branch of mathematics dealing with symbols and the rules for manipulating those symbols. In elementary algebra, those symbols (today written as Latin and Greek letters) represent ...

A Brief History of the Letter ‘X,’ From Algebra to X-Mas to Elon Musk A math historian explores how “x” came to stand in for an unknown quantity ...

In National 4 Maths learn gradient, y-intercept and equation of a straight line and study solving equations and change the subject of a formula.

This book's title is deceiving, for Derbyshire offers a very real and very entertaining survey of the development of algebra ...

Xtending beyond algebra Even if the origins of x in algebra are uncertain, there are some instances in which historians do know why x is used.

How did the letter x get its enduring role as a symbol of the unknown? A mathematician explains why it’s hard to say for sure.

His algebra was syncopated and rhetorical. Indians have a long history of using mathematics. Fire altars were constructed using Pythagoras’ theorem long before Pythagoras.

Our modern lives are influenced by algorithms at every step. We can trace this influence back more than 1,200 years ago – to a Muslim mathematician.

THIS is the second volume of the three in which ooo the authors are writing the history of Hindu mathematics. The first contained Part 1, dealing with numeral notation and arithmetic, which was ...