The Statistics of Coin Tosses for Theater Geeks
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.
How People Paid Their Taxes in Biblical Times
Think doing your taxes is annoying? Imagine trying it without a computer, a calculator… or even the Arabic numeral system.
Mathematics is Beautiful (No, Really)
For many people, memories of maths lessons at school are anything but pretty. Yet “beautiful” is a word ...
The Advanced Mathematics of the Babylonians
The Babylonians knew their mathematics thousands of years before the Europeans.
Does Common Core Math Work?
(This is the first post in a four-part series about Common Core) Why is my kid’s math homework ...
Annals of Mathematics
Recognized as one of the most highly esteemed mathematical journals in the world, Annals of Mathematics has been in circulation since 1884