Halafian pottery shows that early agricultural societies practiced advanced mathematical thinking through plant-based art long before writing.

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Long before anyone wrote down a number, early villagers were painting flowers with a precision that looks suspiciously like ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. David Bessis was drawn to mathematics for the same reason that many people are driven away: He didn’t understand how it worked. Unlike ...

David Bessis was drawn to mathematics for the same reason that many people are driven away: He didn’t understand how it worked. Unlike other creative processes, like making music, which can be heard, ...

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