The Simple Math behind Crunching the Sizes of Crowds How large was the crowd at the recent U.S. presidential inauguration? Or the inauguration eight years ago?

Quantized Academy How Simple Math Moves the Needle The spatial intuition behind a three-point turn offers an on-ramp to a century-old geometry problem. Robert Neubecker for Quanta Magazine ...

The Hidden Depth in Math’s Simple Puzzles Mathematician Richard Schwartz explains why he loves problems he can start solving right away, and how computers can help By Kevin Hartnett & Quanta ...

Bar charts provide technical traders with some additional information compared to the line chart. Looking at the chart above we find that a bar represents a period of time; in this case each bar ...

But a sense of quantity, sometimes called "numerosity," appears across a surprising range of species. So, which animals can count and understand simple math?