ATLANTA, Ga. - Atlanta’s Fernbank Museum wants you to "get lost" this summer — and to learn a few things about mathematical patterns while you’re at it! "A Mirror Maze: Numbers in Nature" is the ...

Often when describing patterns, they are placed in one of two categories: organic or geometric. Organic designs are ones ...

Nearly twenty years after I graduated high school and my last calculus class, I still get that nightmare where I’m at the exam for a calculus course I somehow forgot to attend, or that I faked my way ...

Catalan numbers, a distinguished sequence in combinatorial mathematics, consistently emerge in a wide range of counting problems—from enumerating binary trees and Dyck paths to counting possible ...

For centuries prime numbers have captured the imaginations of mathematicians, who continue to search for new patterns that help them identify primes and the way they are distributed among other ...

The study of condition numbers and perturbation analysis in least squares problems has become a cornerstone in numerical linear algebra, underpinning the reliability and accuracy of solutions to ...

A basic feature of number theory, prime numbers are also a fundamental building block of computer science, from hashtables to cryptography. Everyone knows that a prime number is one that cannot be ...

“Can you escape?” That’s the question that will linger in your mind as you step into the Mirror Maze, Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s latest attraction. “It’s a lot of fun,” Mario Moreno from ...

Being in nature is great for your brain. Experts are trying to figure out why. By Dana G. Smith In 2008, 38 students at the University of Michigan set out on a walk. Half of them wound their way ...

The panda census methodology is widely seen as flawed, and China keeps the data shrouded in secrecy. By Mara Hvistendahl and Joy Dong American zoos point to a rise in the wild panda numbers — 1,864 at ...