Researchers at Israel's Hebrew University have identified the world's earliest systematic botanical art, dating back more than 8,000 years, that demonstrates sophisticated mathematical reasoning.

This discovery, researchers noted, contributes to “ethnomathematics,” a field that explores mathematics through culture.

Halafian pottery shows that early agricultural societies practiced advanced mathematical thinking through plant-based art long before writing.

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Scientists have found proof of mathematics being used by a society long before formal numbers were invented. The Halafian culture of northern Mesopotamia painted floral patterns on pottery that follow ...

Some of the earliest artistic expressions of botanical motifs could indicate that humans developed mathematical and geometric thinking thousands of years before they could write out their calculations ...

Over 8,000 years ago, early farming communities in northern Mesopotamia were already thinking mathematically—long before numbers were written down. By closely studying Halafian pottery, researchers ...

Researchers at Israel’s Hebrew University have identified the world’s earliest systematic botanical art, dating back more than 8,000 years, that demonstrates sophisticated mathematical reasoning.

Two professors, one of English and one of mathematics, were having drinks in the faculty club bar. “It is curious,” said the English professor, “how some poets can write one immortal line and nothing ...

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