
Eight Degrees North
How a change of latitude changed my perspective
Evelyn Lamb is a freelance math and science writer based in Salt Lake City, Utah. Follow Evelyn Lamb on Twitter @evelynjlamb
How a change of latitude changed my perspective
The Fibonacci numbers and Hilbert’s 10th problem
How to calculate an average if you’re indecisive ...
My page-a-day calendar will keep your math itch scratched
When your episode about theorems demonstrates a theorem...
How to write numbers in a whole new way
An outdated unit gets replaced
The problems shaping modern mathematics
Using mathematics to catch the bad guys—in the most contrived way possible
An airtight proof that there are more than 26 numbers
Or should that be Ping-Pong for narcissists?
In memory of Michael Boshernitzan
Walking the Pythagorean theorem
Can AI be creative? Maybe not, but it can be amusing
Digging into the statistics about rice farming and climate change
Tracing our mathematical foremothers
What to do with those pesky order of operations questions?
Sometimes mathematics chases its own tail
In her new book The Weil Conjectures, Karen Olsson ruminates on the trajectories of André and Simone Weil
Mathematics-inspired manipulations of scripture
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