The ancient Greeks wanted to believe that the universe could be described in its entirety using only whole numbers and the ratios between them — fractions, or what we now call rational numbers. But ...

A puzzle posted in an online community unlocked a wormhole within the basic shape. Credit...Ian Henderson Supported by By Siobhan Roberts Lisanne Taams, a student at Radboud University in the ...

Years ago, no math education was complete without understanding how to compute a square root. Today, you are probably just reaching for a calculator, or if you are writing a program, you’ll probably ...