How to Celebrate Thirdsday
A new mathematical holiday celebrates an underappreciated fraction
Stories by Evelyn Lamb
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
"The Danger of a Single Story" in Mathematics
The Lathisms podcast shares the varied stories of Hispanic and Latinx mathematicians
'Tis the Season...for Pumpkin Spice Lattices!
Is that a chill in the air? Then it must be time for PSL’s, everyone’s favorite seasonal matrices
Making Math Joyful
“Mathematician-at-large” James Tanton shares playful mathematics and Sperner’s lemma
The Most Addictive Theorem in Applied Mathematics
Erika Camacho discusses how her favorite theorem applies to her research on mathematical modeling of eye diseases and the dynamics of fanaticism
The Numbers behind a Fields Medalist's Math
Inside the p-adic numbers that make Peter Scholze's work tick
How Math Helped Me Learn Early Music
Abstract algebra class gave me the kick in the rear I needed to focus on the relationships between notes
Holly Krieger's Favorite Theorem
The Cambridge mathematician expounds on the delightful irony of Brouwer's fixed-point theorem
