July 13 -- It has been around the world, battered and burned, then left to grow damp and moldy.Yet within its parchment pages lie the secrets of Archimedes’ mind. It looks like an ancient prayer ...

By hiding math's great masterpieces from students' view, we deny them the beauty of the subject. How our 1,000-year-old math curriculum cheats America's kids - Los Angeles Times ...

Modern math and science have one man to thank: Euclid, a Greek mathematician who, in 300 BC, wrote Euclid’s Elements, a 13-book treatise on geometric and numerical theory. In 1482, it became one ...

How our 1,000-year-old math curriculum cheats America's kids ...