Math equations can feel like a banal abstraction without images to make sense of the strings of numbers, letters, and Greek symbols. Consider the Pythagorean theorem, an essential relation in geometry ...

If you had to design a bird or dolphin drone from scratch, how would you build the wings? That’s the question that Florida State University Assistant Professor of Mathematics Nick Moore posed in a new ...

A graphic artist is testing everyone’s knowledge of the mathematical order of operations with a string of numbers and missing arithmetic symbols. Gergely Dudás, of Budapest, Hungary, shared the new ...

He was supposed to be working on long-form multiplication problems—457 x 214, 378 x 29, 112 x 978—and my son kept asking me to check his answers. But it had been so long since I’d written out any math ...

Local police went above and beyond, though there was a slight glitch. — -- Police across the country are used to solving puzzles, but one Ohio police department recently got a plea for help from ...

Walking on to the deck, you see a whiteboard with numbers and symbols scribbled all over. The novice swimmer might ask, “Am I in math class or at swim practice?” However, the experienced swimmer knows ...

He used relatively simple equations so that designers with a math or engineering background could replicate the work. "I like to spend more energy simplifying the mathematics as much as possible, so ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- If you had to design a bird or dolphin drone from scratch, how would you build the wings? That's the question that Florida State University Assistant Professor of Mathematics Nick ...