An ancient Greek belief about the most pleasing combinations of musical notes – often attributed to the philosopher Pythagoras – doesn’t actually reflect the way people around the world appreciate ...

Pythagoras’ theorem is a statement that is true for all right-angled triangles.It states that the area of the square on the hypotenuse close hypotenuseThe longest side of a right-angled triangle, ...

In this week’s puzzle from the Irish Mathematical Trust, we sit with some dead mathematicians to help them solve a fun maths problem. In the great, non-denominational, all-inclusive after-life, there ...

Meet Kamran Haroon, a little boy who could add and subtract by the time he started nursery. And, by the age of six, the Wylde Green boy could do Pythagoras Theorem - even though he couldn't pronounce ...