Multiplication tables and other math exercises have been found carved into Babylonian tablets from some 3,700 years ago. ... “Mathematics does snowball as these symbols appear,” he says.

In The Language of Mathematics: The Stories behind the Symbols (Princeton University Press, 2025), author and mathematician Raúl Rojas explores these and other examples of the complex, ...

Ready to put your brain to work with a fun math challenge? Create a series of equations to produce each number from 0 to 20, using just '4 Fours' in each equation, along with basic math symbols. Don't ...