Math
Eight Degrees North
How a change of latitude changed my perspective
Stories by Evelyn Lamb
Math
The Surprising Link between Recreational Math and Undecidability
The Fibonacci numbers and Hilbert’s 10th problem
Math
The Ditherer’s Mean
How to calculate an average if you’re indecisive ...
Math
A Mathematical Companion for Your Year
My page-a-day calendar will keep your math itch scratched
Math
Self-Referential Podcasting
When your episode about theorems demonstrates a theorem...
Math
It’s Factoradical!
How to write numbers in a whole new way
Math
Farewell to the Fractional Foot
An outdated unit gets replaced
Math
Hilbert Walked so the Clay Mathematics Institute Could Run
The problems shaping modern mathematics
Math
Law & Order: MVT
Using mathematics to catch the bad guys—in the most contrived way possible
Math
When Your Math Runs out of Letters
An airtight proof that there are more than 26 numbers
Math
Ping-Pong for Introverts
Or should that be Ping-Pong for narcissists?
Math
How Quickly Can You Fill Up a Circle?
In memory of Michael Boshernitzan
Math
In Praise of Chicago’s Hypotenuses
Walking the Pythagorean theorem
Math
Mathematical Mondegreens
Can AI be creative? Maybe not, but it can be amusing
Climate
Should We Eat Less Rice?
Digging into the statistics about rice farming and climate change
Math
The Longest Matrilineal Chain in Math
Tracing our mathematical foremothers
Math
The Only Way to Win Is Not to Play the Game
What to do with those pesky order of operations questions?
Math
In Pursuit of Completeness
Sometimes mathematics chases its own tail
Math
Parallels and Perpendiculars in the Lives of Two Extraordinary Siblings
In her new book The Weil Conjectures, Karen Olsson ruminates on the trajectories of André and Simone Weil
Math
Diagonalizing the Psalms
Mathematics-inspired manipulations of scripture
