Leonardo Bonacci – known as Fibonacci, the son of Bonaccio – lived from 1170 to about 1245 AD. It is he who we must thank for ...

Two Qatari students, Mohammed Jassim al-Harami from Ahmed Mansour Primary School for Boys and Aisha Tamim al-Tamimi from Al Markhiya Primary School for Girls, won the gold and silver medal, ...

Dubai Week three of my Arabic adventure starts with a maths lesson. At least, that’s how it looks when the tutor writes on the white board 25÷4=5. But no such luck - I was always pretty good at maths ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Only Bahraini science students have come close to saving the Arab world’s blushes as Middle East students ...

Centuries ago, a prestigious Islamic library brought Arabic numerals to the world. Though the library long since disappeared, its mathematical revolution changed our world. The House of Wisdom sounds ...

In some conservative countries in the Arab world, female students are outnumbering men in the fields of science, technology, engineering and maths - widely known as Stem. But after graduation, things ...

Guido Menzio, a tenured professor of who won the 2015 Carlo Alberto medal, was even more surprised to find out why the passenger sitting next to him had raised the alarm: She had noticed that the ...

While politicians have for years made a political issue out of imposing a “core curriculum” on resistant haredi schools in Israel, little has been said about the lack of core curriculum studies in ...