Patterns are powerful. They’re in numbers, public spaces, and hidden in sales data – and recognizing patterns in the world around us has been changing how we think for centuries. “It is not certain ...

You reach into your wallet, grab what seems like an ordinary dollar bill for your morning coffee, completely unaware that the ...

You've probably never given a second thought to the dollar bills sitting in your wallet right now. Most people don't. They're just money, right? Something to grab for coffee or parking meters, and ...

Prime numbers are sometimes called math’s “atoms” because they can be divided by only themselves and 1. For two millennia, mathematicians have wondered if the prime numbers are truly random, or if ...

How did you learn the mathematical formula for pi? It was likely the way I learned it. I was told to commit the value pi = 3.14 to memory along with the formula to calculate the area of a circle.

Over 8,000 years ago, early farming communities in northern Mesopotamia were already thinking mathematically—long before numbers were written down. By closely studying Halafian pottery, researchers ...