At the end of the nineteenth century, the kilogram was conceived as the mass of one liter of water at 4°C, the temperature at which water was densest.

How big a difference does air resistance make when running a marathon? Nike tried to find out recently. A look at the science behind the 2-hour marathon.

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.

Think doing your taxes is annoying? Imagine trying it without a computer, a calculator… or even the Arabic numeral system.

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

(This is the first post in a four-part series about Common Core) Why is my kid’s math homework ...

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