Serafina Cuomo

Serafina Cuomo (she/her) studies the history of ancient Greek and Roman science and technology, and is interested in their wider social, cultural, political, and economic contexts. She is a professor of ancient history in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at Durham University (UK).

Did modern mathematics originate in the fifth century BCE?

It is often assumed that the Greeks invented mathematics in the 5th century BCE, and that they had a set definition of what it entailed. But this is an over-simplification of the history of mathematics.