Robert Recorde was a polymath Welshman born in 151...  ...ress, quickly and with a minimum of wasted ink, a mathematical equation in symbols. Instead of writing, "A facto...  ...e whyche is takene awaye a quantitie of foure," a mathematician could write: "x + 3 = y - 4".That opened the door...  ...d write: "x +...

It's common knowledge that you don't want to wear...  ...ew members wearing any other kind of uniform. But mathematician James Grime looked at the numbers in a different...  ...ent way. He gave a lecture called "Star Trek: The Math of Khan" at the Museum of Mathematics in New Y...

A Thai restaurant in San Antonio will let you use their wifi, but they're not going to make it easy! Joshua_Glock posted the sign, looking for some help. The top comment at reddit has an answer, but I don't know how corr...

We know that pie are square, and that’s very...  ...get the most pizza for your dollar? By doing the math . [https://youtu.be/YAawHbPiQfo] (YouTube link) Y...

If you put yourself in the place of ancient people...  ...objects, but it turned out to be pretty handy for mathematics .[https://youtu.be/9Y7gAzTMdMA] (YouTube link)Once...

I look at Game of Thrones as a tournament bracket....  ...To determine the real main character, we turn to mathematics . Or rather, professor Andrew J. Beveridge of Maca...  ...Lannister. In spite of his small size, Tyrion is mathematically the most important character in Game of Thrones.W...

Once upon a time, we presented you with the puzzle about Four Men in Hats. That was difficult. Then we gave you three men with five hats. I never figured that one out on my own, either. Now comes a puzzle with the same t...

Check out this neuroscience dress!The print on thi...  ...edication to science, technology, engineering, or math . They have dress prints that show off circuitry p...

Maddy, the daughter of Jenn Morrison Douglas, had...  ...as, had an unusual word problem on a fourth grade math test. In it, four boys and four girls all took tu...

I’m not sure whether this is totally a math problem or a logic problem, but it has elements o...  ...e’s a good chance it’s Monday and you math nerds haven’t even tossed a coin at all yet...