Our series reveals the math hidden in familiar places. How much do you know about taxicab geometry, triangular numbers, the ...

This mathematical object is called a Mobius strip. It has fascinated environmentalists, artists, engineers, mathematicians and many others ever since its discovery in 1858 by August Möbius, ...

Hannah Larson is obsessed with understanding what happens when two or more mathematical objects intersect. Larson, a mathematician at the University of California, Berkeley, and a research fellow ...

If mathematical objects really exist, their properties are certainly very peculiar. For one, they are causally inert, meaning they cannot be the cause of anything, ...

Mathematics Of Cloaking: New Analysis Improves Methods To Render Objects Invisible. ScienceDaily . Retrieved April 23, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2006 / 12 / 061226134711.htm ...

How Math Became an Object of the Culture Wars. As was true in the nineties, today’s fights about math are not entirely about what kids actually learn in their classrooms.

In 1915, the Mathematical Association of America formed to encourage advanced mathematics teaching in the United States. Members received a journal called The American Mathematical Monthly and ...

In 1988, he defended his mathematics thesis, “Combinatorial Theory of Polytopes With Symmetry and Its Applications to Combinatorial Optimization Problems.” In 1991, he and his wife had a son ...