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Daniel Tammet can recite math constant Pi from memory to 22,514 decimal places. May 28, 2010— -- On the outside, 31-year-old Daniel Tammet is an unremarkable young man. But behind Tammet's ...

Images of plants painted on pottery made up to 8,000 years ago may be the earliest example of humans’ mathematical thought, a ...

Flower designs on 8,000-year-old Mesopotamian pots reveal a “mathematical knowledge” perhaps developed to share land and ...

“It was just so stunning for someone so young to have done something so revolutionary,” said Weinstein, a 34-year-old number theorist now at Boston University. “It was extremely humbling.” ...

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