OpinionJune 7, 2020
One Weird Trick to Make Calculus More Beautiful
The strange power of complex analysis
Stories by Evelyn Lamb
Evelyn Lamb is a freelance math and science writer based in Salt Lake City, Utah.
The SciencesJune 6, 2020
Proving a Legendary Mathematician Wrong
Remembering “Euler’s spoilers,” who showed that special magic squares exist
OpinionJune 5, 2020
When Rational Points Are Few and Far Between
BEAM program manager Ruthi Hortsch shares her love of Faltings’s theorem
OpinionMay 13, 2020
Diana Davis’s Beautiful Pentagons
This mathematician turns her research into fashion and toys
OpinionMay 11, 2020
The Monster That Expands Our Mathematical Imaginations
Ben Orlin shares his favorite fractal curve
OpinionMay 6, 2020
Discovering Joyful Math Away from the Classroom
Here are resources for students, parents and other learners
OpinionApril 25, 2020
Prime Factorization as Verse
Creating poetry with the fundamental theorem of arithmetic
OpinionApril 21, 2020
The Theorem That Applies to Everything from Search Algorithms to Epidemiology
Perron-Frobenius theorem and linear algebra have many virtues to extol
The SciencesApril 10, 2020
That Time It Took a Student 44 Years to Get Her Degree because She Was a Woman
Christine Ladd-Franklin received a Ph.D. in 1926 for work completed in 1882
The SciencesMarch 6, 2020
The Very Special Triangles
A recent paper uncovers a unique pair of shapes
OpinionMarch 4, 2020
An Inclusive Vision of Math
Francis Su’s book Mathematics for Human Flourishing is both an invitation and a challenge
OpinionFebruary 28, 2020
The Intersected States of America
Sometimes a union does not feel very united
OpinionFebruary 20, 2020
Computation in Service of Poetry
An algorithm calculates powers of 2 from a classical Sanskrit math text
OpinionFebruary 3, 2020
The Theorem That Made a Mathematician
Sometimes unimportant math can change your life
OpinionJanuary 23, 2020
Forget Meters and Feet
There’s only one truly basic unit of length for earthlings
OpinionJanuary 11, 2020
2 Continues Its Reign as the Smallest Known Prime Number
Large prime numbers get a lot of attention, but this tiny work horse deserves some love, too
OpinionJanuary 7, 2020
Once More, With Turning
The Gauss-Bonnet theorem is a mathematical favorite
OpinionJanuary 3, 2020
The Mathematics of Opt Art
In his new book, Robert Bosch explains the optimization tools he uses to create intricate and playful images
OpinionDecember 27, 2019
The Math Reading Challenge 2020
Here are 12 prompts to help you find mathematics-related books for the coming year
The SciencesDecember 12, 2019
The Bayes Appreciation Society
Sophie Carr shares her love for a fundamental theorem about probability
The SciencesDecember 7, 2019
The Surprising Link between Recreational Math and Undecidability
The Fibonacci numbers and Hilbert’s 10th problem
The SciencesDecember 5, 2019
Eight Degrees North
How a change of latitude changed my perspective
The SciencesNovember 26, 2019
The Ditherer’s Mean
How to calculate an average if you’re indecisive
The SciencesNovember 12, 2019
A Mathematical Companion for Your Year
My page-a-day calendar will keep your math itch scratched