IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. From the time of Descartes (1596–1650 ...

The pirates are bored, so they count the number of people in line using ordinal numbers. The pirates are bored, so they count the number of people in line using ordinal numbers. Meanwhile, Peg, Cat, ...

The Kakeya conjecture predicts how much room you need to point a line in every direction. In one number system after another — with one important exception — mathematicians have been proving it true.

Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have studied the relationship between numerical information in our vision, and ...

The Riemann hypothesis is the most important open question in number theory—if not all of mathematics. It has occupied experts for more than 160 years. And the problem appeared both in mathematician ...

The ancient Greeks wanted to believe that the universe could be described in its entirety using only whole numbers and the ratios between them — fractions, or what we now call rational numbers. But ...