The SciencesMay 19, 2020
Pi in the Sky: General Relativity Passes the Ratio’s Test
Using gravitational waves to approximate pi, physicists see no problem with Einstein’s theory
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The SciencesMay 19, 2020
Geometry Points to Coronavirus Drug Target Candidates
A new mathematical model predicts areas on a virus that might be especially vulnerable to disabling treatments
New Issue: Science’s Impossible Questions. Read Now
OpinionMay 13, 2020
Diana Davis’s Beautiful Pentagons
This mathematician turns her research into fashion and toys
OpinionMay 11, 2020
The Monster That Expands Our Mathematical Imaginations
Ben Orlin shares his favorite fractal curve
OpinionMay 6, 2020
Discovering Joyful Math Away from the Classroom
Here are resources for students, parents and other learners
OpinionApril 25, 2020
Prime Factorization as Verse
Creating poetry with the fundamental theorem of arithmetic
OpinionApril 21, 2020
The Theorem That Applies to Everything from Search Algorithms to Epidemiology
Perron-Frobenius theorem and linear algebra have many virtues to extol
OpinionApril 20, 2020
Remembering Mathematical Magician John Conway
His creative and influential ideas spilled over into quantum physics, philosophy and computer science
The SciencesApril 10, 2020
That Time It Took a Student 44 Years to Get Her Degree because She Was a Woman
Christine Ladd-Franklin received a Ph.D. in 1926 for work completed in 1882
The SciencesApril 3, 2020
Mathematical Proof That Rocked Number Theory Will Be Published
But some experts say author Shinichi Mochizuki failed to fix a fatal flaw in the solution of a major arithmetic problem
The SciencesMarch 25, 2020
Exponential Infection Increases Are Deadly Serious
Listen in as I use two calculators to track the difference in numbers of infections over a short period of time, depending on how many people each infected individual infects on average.
The SciencesMarch 6, 2020
The Very Special Triangles
A recent paper uncovers a unique pair of shapes