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Tucked away in a seemingly forgotten corner of the Istanbul Archaeology Museum, Daniel Mansfield found what may solve one of ancient math’s biggest questions. First exhumed in 1894 from what is now ...

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When researchers at the University of Cambridge decided to test ChatGPT with a 2,400-year-old geometry puzzle, they expected the AI to simply regurgitate the famous solution. Instead, the chatbot did ...

Two lost books by Apollonius, the ancient Greek mathematician known as "The Great Geometer," have survived in an Arabic manuscript preserved at the Libraries of Leiden University in the Netherlands.

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