Every Wednesday at noon in Times Square, New York City, educator George Nobl sets up a table. He lays out different math problems that need to be tackled and a row of Snickers bars for anybody who gets them right.
It can be difficult for courts to assess whether districts have been gerrymandered. Moon Duchin is spearheading a program that will train math experts to help.
Pi is delicious — and other math lessons you’ll be happy to learn
2,400 years after it was published, Euclid’s Elements is still a foundational text of geometry. But it’s only recently that a colorful 19th-century version of his work has been recognized as a stunning design decades ahead of its time.
An Iranian woman makes history in winning a math prize
Maryam Mirzakhani is the first woman and the first Iranian to win the Fields Medal, math’s most prestigious prize. Maryam Mirzakhani is the first woman and the first Iranian to win the Fields Medal, math’s most prestigious prize.
