In a recent study, mathematicians from Freie Universität Berlin have demonstrated that planar tiling, or tessellation, is much more than a way to create a pretty pattern. Consisting of a surface ...

In a recent study, mathematicians from Freie Universität Berlin have demonstrated that planar tiling, or tessellation, is much more than a way to create a pretty pattern. Consisting of a surface ...

In an approach reminiscent of the classic board game "Battleship," Stanford researchers have discovered a way to characterize the microscopic structure of everyday materials such as sand and concrete ...

One useful feature of the Python math module is quick access to mathematical constants. You can make Python more effective as a scientific calculator by using these same functions with numerical ...

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 ...

For Mr. Santos, math can also inspire ideas about structures that have already been built — a new way to see and appreciate the world. Inspired by this idea, The New York Times created a virtual tour ...

According to a survey conducted by The Female Athlete Health Report from Project RED-S and Kyniska Advocacy in 2023, 36 percent of female athletes ignored missed periods, thinking it was normal or, in ...

Em, a player needs considerable skill, no small amount of luck...and it wouldn't hurt to know what every other player is holding, either. WIRED's Andy Greenberg teams up with casino cheating expert ...

In January 1913, a young Indian clerk in Madras (now Chennai) mailed a thick letter to a famous British mathematician, G. H. Hardy, ...

Alabama won ugly in Athens with absurd third-down efficiency and just enough clock management to pull off the upset.