Stories by Evelyn Lamb

The fractal you can make with candy corn

Not long ago, I noticed that I had six Facebook friends with the same birthday, and none of them knew each other. Here's why I was excited.

Margot Lee Shetterly's book about NASA's black women mathematicians and engineers is timely and eye-opening

The golden ratio is familiar to many math enthusiasts—what about the silver ratio? Bronze? Aluminum?

If you're baffled by the phrase “theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter,” we're here to help

Any two rings are disconnected from one another, but together they cannot be separated

A roundup of my posts about mathematical art—#loveyourmath

Hiking my way to a new appreciation of a classic mathematical paradox

Save money and be the life of the next party with this one weird trick

In an important new book, Cathy O'Neil warns us that algorithms can and do perpetuate inequality

The power of logarithms, zero and the word or

The mathematics of the Olympic rings

The discoverer of the quaternions gets Lin Manuel-ized

It’s not quite two-dimensional, it’s not quite three-dimensional. Welcome to the weird world of fractal dimension

Sphere packing—it's not just for oranges anymore

A highly scientific assessment of your math geekitude

Why your clothing is actually visiting you from higher-dimensional space

A guided tour of nothing

Ukrainian mathematician Maryna Viazovska recently figured out how spheres could be efficiently arranged in eight and 24 dimensions

June 28—6/28 or 28/6—is the most mathematically perfect day of the year. Celebrate by befriending a perfect number

Using basic algebra to explain revenue shortfalls

And the Tony Award for the best use of mathematics in a musical goes to…

How to get from billiards to doughnuts

I kind of assumed I could get past page 2 of a math book before the author objectified women...