The Tragedy of Infinite Tic-Tac-Toe
How many X’s Can You Fit in a Plane?
Stories by Evelyn Lamb
Pinning Down Uncertainty
Cynthia Flores describes how Heisenberg’s famous principle has shaped her mathematical career and worldview
The Couple That Studies the Intermediate Value Theorem Together Stays Together
Mathematicians Nikita Nikolaev and Beatriz Navarro Lameda share their favorite theorem and their mathematics-themed wedding
The Voices of Black Mathematicians
Black History Month in the U.S. is a good time to celebrate these important people
Even Kids Can Understand That Algorithms Can Be Biased
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is right: machines can lead to racist outcomes
The Butterfly Effect and Jamaican Cuisine
Nira Chamberlain, the World's Most Interesting Mathematician, describes the delicate mathematics of weather models
The Unknowability of the Number Line
Skip Garibaldi tells us about the numbers we can never describe
How to Celebrate Thirdsday
A new mathematical holiday celebrates an underappreciated fraction
How to Memorize the Largest Known Prime
It may seem daunting to memorize a 24-million-digit number, but with these tips you'll be well on your way
The Theorem That Inspired a Novel
Literary mathematician Michèle Audin tells us why Stokes’ formula is her favorite theorem
Women Mathematicians in Their Own Words
The Journeys of Women in Mathematics documentary diversifies the stories we tell about women in math
Assigning a Value to Teamwork
Mathematician Anil Venkatesh tells us why the Shapley value is the best way to quantify everything from Security Council vetoes to video game weapons
Counterexamples in Music Theory
Personal closure on an attempted theorem about 12-tone music
Graph Theory and Cocktail Parties
Science writer Yen Duong tells us why she loves the "friends and strangers" theorem
What Are the Odds of a Family with 14 Boys?
I heard about a 14-boy Michigan family, so I crunched some numbers
The Queen of the Fold-and-Cut Alphabet
Manchester mathematician Katie Steckles tells us about her favorite theorem and how she used it to help design a new font
What Is an "Almost Prime" Number?
They say you can’t be a little bit pregnant, but maybe a number can be a little bit prime
If Mathematicians Were in Charge of Punctuation
Better living through set-builder notation
Financial Mathematics and Ultimate Frisbee
Mike Lawler talks about the most influential paper in his career in finance, teaching math to his kids and ultimate
Math, Quilting and Activism
Mathematician Chawne Kimber shares her favorite theorems and quilts that make a statement
