Numbers rarely make headlines, but pi has a habit of doing exactly that. The ...

Cheng (How to Bake π), a scientist in residence at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and honorary fellow at Sheffield University, tackles some difficult concepts in this superb study of the ...

Last week, my first grader came home with thoughts about math (I love it when she does that!) She said that, since one hundred plus ten was “one hundred and ten”, that, therefore, infinity plus ten ...

The Hearst Movie & A Martini group responded to “The Man Who Knew Infinity” much more favorably than most of the critics did. The would-be prestige hit about an Indian mathematics genius (Dev Patel), ...

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(THE REPORTER) — Now that everyone has mini-supercomputers that pretend to be phones in their pockets, it can be challenging to get young people to learn problem-solving skills that do not involve ...