A Mathematical Companion for Your Year
My page-a-day calendar will keep your math itch scratched
Math1474 articles archived since 1845
Self-Referential Podcasting
When your episode about theorems demonstrates a theorem...
Is Inequality Inevitable?
Wealth naturally trickles up in free-market economies, model suggests
It’s Factoradical!
How to write numbers in a whole new way
Farewell to the Fractional Foot
An outdated unit gets replaced
Hilbert Walked so the Clay Mathematics Institute Could Run
The problems shaping modern mathematics
Recommended Books, October 2019
50 things to see in the night sky, untold stories of mathematical Americans, and more
What Are the Chances?
A probabilistic science project from Science Buddies
Introducing the November 2019 Issue
Time crystals, trickle-up economics, songbird diversity, and more
Comparing Beauty in Math and Art
People pair mathematical proofs with paintings and pieces of music similarly
Law & Order: MVT
Using mathematics to catch the bad guys—in the most contrived way possible
Smartphone Data Show Voters in Black Neighborhoods Wait Longer
A new analysis adds to existing evidence for a racial disparity in wait times at polling places
When Your Math Runs out of Letters
An airtight proof that there are more than 26 numbers
The Mathematical Language of Nature
Physics historian Graham Farmelo talks about his latest book, The Universe Speaks in Numbers: How Modern Math Reveals Nature's Deepest Secrets.
Ping-Pong for Introverts
Or should that be Ping-Pong for narcissists?
New Proof Solves 80-Year-Old Irrational Number Problem
Mathematicians have finally proved a conjecture on approximating numbers with fractions
Is Mathematics, like Science, Pluralistic?
Mathematicians disagree over whether their fundamental assumptions, or axioms, are true...
Even If We Knew Everything That Can Be Known, We Wouldn’t Know It All
Beyond the unknown unknowns is what's unknowable
How Quickly Can You Fill Up a Circle?
In memory of Michael Boshernitzan
In Praise of Chicago’s Hypotenuses
Walking the Pythagorean theorem
