The symbols we use every day have fascinating and surprisingly recent origins, explains author Joseph Mazur in his new book A few years ago friends and I were talking about the origins of written ...

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Mathematics is often seen as a set of formulas and rules, but the Class 7 textbook Ganita Prakash Part 2 shows that it can be much more. The book links classroom lessons to India’s long history of ...