This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information Educational Studies in Mathematics presents new ideas and developments of major importance to those working in the field of ...

It might seem counterintuitive that we don’t know who wrote one of the Beatles’ most famous songs, but a never-ending debate attributing it to either John Lennon or Paul McCartney has left us with an ...

John Conway’s Game of Life, a famous cellular automaton, has been found to have periodic patterns of every possible length. In 1969, the British mathematician John Conway devised a beguilingly simple ...

“Why bring together two fields that seem to many people so very disparate" What could mathematics and poetry share, except that the mention of either one is sometimes enough to bring an uneasy chill ...

This photograph does a pretty good job of "describing" ripples. But a mathematician could do it with greater precision and predictive power. Image credit: andressolo, Flickr, CC BY 2.0 "How is it ...