Math

Margaret Hamilton designed safety features for NASA inspired in part by her four-year-old

Several teams appeared to spend the second half of the U.S. professional basketball season losing games on purpose for a better chance at a high draft pick. New ideas propose to fix this incentive problem

Statistical principles show you don’t need a nefarious plot to explain clusters of missing scientists and lab workers

A growing minority believes it’s a mistake to tie so many mathematical formulas to the famed 3.14... value. Another value, tau, could be better

In one famous episode of The Simpsons, Homer finds a counterexample to Fermat’s last theorem

A ChatGPT AI has proved a conjecture with a method no human had thought of. Experts believe it may have further uses

Does it ever feel like an elevator is always going in the wrong direction? Mathematics can explain why

Military strategists use game theory to evaluate possible strategies—but there are limits to what this approach to decision-making can achieve

A dispute over how to divvy up the pot in an interrupted game of chance led early mathematicians to invent modern risk assessment

For decades, mathematician Frank Merle has been embracing the messy math behind lasers and fluids

Take apart the grid in this math puzzle

The Diffie-Hellman key exchange secures everything from your text messages to government secrets