How a centuries-old math puzzle helped us see inside the human brain. By Steven Strogatz Photo illustrations by Jens Mortensen Each installment of “Math, Revealed” starts with an object, uncovers the ...

From Bowen Kerins comes an opportunity to reclaim any marbles you may have lost: Bill has four opaque bags, each of which has three marbles inside. Three of the bags contain two white marbles and one ...

One of the most magical aspects of mathematics is the ability for complex and intricate structures to emerge from the simplest of rules. Few mathematical objects are simpler to create – and few weave ...

Test your knowledge of taxicab geometry, triangular numbers, the golden ratio and more. Credit... Supported by By Steven Strogatz “Math, Revealed,” our four-part series exploring the mathematics ...

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. For many people, memories of maths lessons at school are anything but pretty. Yet "beautiful" is a word that I and ...

The first four triangular numbers are 1, 3, 6 and 10, and the nth triangular number is given by the expression n(n+1)/2, so the 20th such number is 20 × 21 ÷ 2 = 210. ENIGMA is a triangular ...

Pascal’s triangle is one of the most famous of all mathematical diagrams, simple to construct and yet rich in mathematical patterns. These can be found by a web search, but their discovery by study of ...

Meme that’s making the rounds this week: This New Year, 2024, is tetrahedral. What does that mean? No, it has nothing to do with those containers various juices and milk and the like come in. Then ...

Harry and Tom have each found a 4-digit perfect square, a 3-digit perfect cube and a 3-digit triangular number that use 10 different digits, but with no leading zero. A triangular number is one that ...

There is no number more metal than six hundred and sixty-six. Thirteen does its best, but there’s something intrinsically metal about 666. It might be the repetition, or it might be that Iron Maiden ...