The Longest Matrilineal Chain in Math
Tracing our mathematical foremothers
Roots of Unity
Mathematics: learning it, doing it, celebrating it.
The Only Way to Win Is Not to Play the Game
What to do with those pesky order of operations questions?
In Pursuit of Completeness
Sometimes mathematics chases its own tail
Parallels and Perpendiculars in the Lives of Two Extraordinary Siblings
In her new book The Weil Conjectures, Karen Olsson ruminates on the trajectories of André and Simone Weil
Diagonalizing the Psalms
Mathematics-inspired manipulations of scripture
1,000 Years of Congruent Numbers
These integers have inspired one of the most important unsolved problems in mathematics
A Feat of Mathematical Eponymy
2400 years separate two people with whom this computer science term is associated
Happy Numbers Have No Density
These blissful integers are a bit mysterious
The Funniest Math Joke
Because you know it has to be when you write 400 words explaining it
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Inka History in Knots [Book Review]
Gary Urton explains what we can and cannot know about Inka khipus
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