Arabic Numerals were introduced to Europe by Leonardo Bonacci. Bonacci, better known as Fibonacci, hailed from the 13th Century Republic of Pisa. If not for Fibonacci, we would all be using ...

Once a century, a very special day comes along. That day is today — 9/16/25. Pi Day (3/14) often comes with sweet treats; Square Root Day (4/4/16 or 5/5/25, for example) has a certain numerical rhyme.

A variation of a puzzle called the “pick-up sticks problem” asks the following question: If I have some number of sticks with random lengths between 0 and 1, what are the chances that no three of ...

Test your knowledge of taxicab geometry, triangular numbers, the golden ratio and more. Credit... Supported by By Steven Strogatz “Math, Revealed,” our four-part series exploring the mathematics ...

Welcome to another Mathologer video. Ever heard of Ptolemy’s theorem? It made a guest appearance in my last video. Incredibly important, incredibly beautiful, and an incredible crime that nobody tells ...

Construct a convex octagon with four right angles. It probably says a lot about me as a teacher that I assign problems like this. I watch as students try to arrange the right angles consecutively.

It is a universal truth that 1 + 1 = 2, but how we worked that out is a little more complicated. The fact that 1 plus 1 equals 2, or that there’s an infinite number of primes, are truths about reality ...

Unlock a treasure trove of free Key Stage 3 maths worksheets tailored to the curriculum. These worksheets will save you time and boost students’ learning. We’ve split this post up into six main areas.

Jim Dolan and I are trying to learn about modular forms and the Modularity Theorem, once known as the Taniyama–Shimura–Weil Conjecture. It’s an irresistible challenge. After all, this result implies ...

Part of what intrigues me about reading Terence Tao’s blog is that he displays there a different aesthetic to the one largely admired here. The best effort to capture this difference is, I believe, ...