I'm going to be blunt with you. You've probably spent real money on your home's exterior — new siding, updated porch lights, maybe even a stamped concrete walkway that cost more than you want to admit ...

Jeff Smith's Math Puzzle for April 17, 2026 - Price of Golden Rectangles soars as price of 1961 Corvairs plummets. The post ...

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The Sagrada Família impresses not only with the world's tallest church tower: the mathematics of the unusual century-long ...

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The ghost of Mary Shelly speaking to us from the beyond, in black and white, infecting a call girl named Ida (Jessie Buckley) in 1930s gangster-infested Chicago. She’s killed after publicly ...

Math might seem far removed from interior design, but geometry is often the secret behind homes that sing. Decorators rely on formulas for determining the right size coffee table to pair with a couch ...

The International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) is a prestigious competition featuring talented high school students from around the world, in which competitors solve complicated mathematical problems.

In the third century BCE, Apollonius of Perga asked how many circles one could draw that would touch three given circles at exactly one point each. It would take 1,800 years to prove the answer: eight ...

Class is almost over—but instead of zoning out or packing up early, your students are hunched over their work, erasing, recalculating, and debating. The room buzzes with the rich math talk every ...

Can you imagine the imprint a four-dimensional hexagon might leave as it passes through your three-dimensional kitchen table? Probably not, but some people can. One such person was mathematician ...