The Halafian culture of northern Mesopotamia arranged floral depictions on pottery with symmetry and numerical sequences, displaying one of the earliest pieces of evidence of mathematical thinking.

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athematics is, at its core, an art. Like painters, musicians or writers, mathematicians create and explore new worlds. They ...

Over 8,000 years ago, early farming communities in northern Mesopotamia were already thinking mathematically—long before ...