This dispute is just one of many such little-known events; for example, another debate has been raging for centuries over who invented the symbol for zero, 0. In The Language of Mathematics ...

Elaborate symbols and ornate depictions of animals carved in stone by an ancient Scottish people have given up their secret – to mathematics. Statistical analysis reveals that the shapes are a ...

Banksy, the elusive artist behind million-dollar works of political graffiti, may have been tagged: a new mathematical analysis claims to have identified the artist as Robin Gunningham.