Here’s why mathematicians are so interested in cake cutting
Ariel Procaccia has thought a lot about how to cut cake over the last 15 years. That’s partly because the…
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Ariel Procaccia has thought a lot about how to cut cake over the last 15 years. That’s partly because the…
Geometry students are taught that squaring the circle — using a compass and straightedge to draw a square with the…
"Six degrees of separation” refers to a long-held notion about social networks—namely, that any two people in a social network…
A few minutes into a 2018 talk at the University of Michigan, Ian Tobasco picked up a large piece of paper and…
In the late 1960s, a serial killer self-identifying as “the Zodiac” killed at least five people in Northern California and…
Between 1957 and 1986 Martin Gardner wrote the Mathematical Games column for this magazine, with a total of 297 installments.…
The human brain is both a marvel and a mystery of evolution: Packed into a volume about one-quarter that of…
Every year, the Joint Mathematics Meeting brings more than 5,000 math lovers together. It’s the largest math meeting in the…
The human nose finds it simple to distinguish the aroma of fresh coffee from the stink of rotten eggs, but…
On January 9, 2018, a trio of federal judges made history when they ruled that the boundaries of North Carolina’s…