Blaise Pascal resists definition. During a short life (he died in 1662, aged 39) he invented the calculator, laid the ...

Hamza Boukili, a French math teacher at the institute, said the focus of cultivating future-oriented talent should be ...

Cogito, ergo sum, as the phrase goes in Latin, cemented the way the Western world would continue to define the self for the ...

Stream the full episode after the 6 p.m. newscast Wednesday on the free 5+ app. Pakistan Signals Potential Retaliation After India’s Air Strike New 'deliciously twisted' thriller soars to number ...

I have weekly meetings with my supervisor, not just discussing the research but also how I'm feeling mentally and what I am doing to prepare myself for the future. It’s an all-round package of making ...

Mathematicians have long believed that a general solution for these equations in terms of square or cube roots, known as radicals, was impossible. That belief dates back to 1832, when French ...

THIS is a reprint—“nouvelle édition” it calls itself—of the great work of Descartes, giving the first exposition (such as it is) of the system of co-ordinate geometry since known as ...

The celebrated English scientist Sir Isaac Newton was born on January 4, 1643, in a small village in England named Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth. Newton later on became one of the most celebrated ...

THE year 1936 marked the tricentenary of Descartes' “Discourse on Method”, so Prof. Roth's study is both timely and welcome. A turning point in European thought, the “Discourse” has a ...