More than a hundred years ago, long before anyone imagined supercomputers or black hole ...

HOLLYWOOD’S golden age may have ended in the 1950s, but it is only recently that Tinseltown appears to have hit upon a mathematical way to capitalise on our fickle attention spans. “Film-makers have ...

This video teaches a powerful self-working card trick based entirely on a hidden mathematical principle. No sleight-of-hand ...

Everyone who gambles at anything - and, of course, this includes poker - should know at least a little bit about probability. The chance of an event happening is always between 0 and 1.0. An event ...

is a math professor at Harvey Mudd College, but he's got a side gig, too: as a magician. His new book, "The Magic of Math," combines his two passions — which actually have a lot in common.

One of my fellow contributors here recently wrote a post about leap years and why we have them. This reminded me of modular arithmetic and the formula for calculating the day of the week for any date ...

A method to mathematically prove that a hacker has found a software bug, without revealing details of how the exploit works, could prevent companies from ignoring security vulnerabilities. It is ...