An elementary form of calculus thought to have been discovered some 700 years ago may be three times as old, analysis of ancient Babylonian astronomical artifacts shows. Scholars as early as 350 B ...

the early beginnings of calculus were being born, a full 1,400 years before Medieval European scholars picked it up. The PopSci team has tested hundreds of products and spent thousands of hours ...

Previously, microscopy studies had identified all sorts of things entrapped within ancient dental calculus, including plant microfossils (pollen, starches, phytoliths and fibers) and a diverse ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) -- If Galileo was the so-called father of astronomy, then the ancient Babylonians were the great, great-grandfathers. More than a thousand years before Galileo looked upward ...

and eventually used those counterexamples to put calculus on more stable and durable footing. One of these mathematicians was Karl Weierstrass. Though he showed an early aptitude for math ...