A Weymouth mathematician and his young son have unlocked a 400-year-old card trick with links to William Shakespeare. Colin ...

A Weymouth mathematician and his young son have unlocked a 400-year-old card trick with links to William Shakespeare. Colin Beveridge unravelled the mathematical secrets of the Elizabethan card trick ...

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“When we view mathematics as a tool for modeling the world … we can build on it in a way that students see mathematics and ...

Some elements of that earlier vision remain: Math for English Majors talks about numbers as nouns, verbs as calculations, and ...

Math’s “best-choice problem” could help humans become better decision-makers, at everything from choosing the best job ...

However, if you have somehow burnt through all the inventive and corny confession ideas, there’s a new mathematical expression you can use: 128 √e980. This seemingly-random numeric expression, dubbed ...

Earlier this month the Mathematics Institute at Uppsala University hosted a conference called Categorification in Algebra and Topology, clearly a theme close to our collective heart. As yet there are ...

In elementary school, I carried children’s books to my high school’s football games and made my English-teacher mother’s ...

Collecting like terms means to simplify terms in expressions in which the variables are the same. In the expression \(5a + 2b + 3a - 6b\), the terms \(5a\) and \(+ 3a\) are like terms, as are \(2b ...

In elementary school, I carried children’s books to my high school’s football games and made my English-teacher mother’s ...