Mathematics

The fate of a free throw is set the instant the ball leaves the player’s fingertips.

Gambling is one of humankind’s oldest activities. Elaborate technologies and customs have emerged around games of chance. Dice in particular have drawn attention from scholars.

At the beginning of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, a coin toss lands as heads 92 times in a row, the odds of which are a mere 1 in 5 octillion.

For many people, memories of maths lessons at school are anything but pretty. Yet “beautiful” is a word ...

The Babylonians knew their mathematics thousands of years before the Europeans.

Like the Nazca lines of Peru, a strange series of shapes have been found in the Middle East. New research has tried to understand their purpose.

Recognized as one of the most highly esteemed mathematical journals in the world, Annals of Mathematics has been in circulation since 1884