Stories by Evelyn Lamb

When your episode about theorems demonstrates a theorem

An outdated unit gets replaced

How to write numbers in a whole new way

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

Mathematics-inspired manipulations of scripture

In her new book The Weil Conjectures, Karen Olsson ruminates on the trajectories of André and Simone Weil

These integers have inspired one of the most important unsolved problems in mathematics

2400 years separate two people with whom this computer science term is associated

These blissful integers are a bit mysterious

Because you know it has to be when you write 400 words explaining it

Gary Urton explains what we can and cannot know about Inka khipus

Euclid’s proof of the infinitude of primes opens the door to some interesting questions

Moon Duchin shares an abstract theorem with surprising connections to gerrymandering

This holey mathematical object was discovered by a Swiss mathematician and then forgotten for decades