Weird Math sets out to “reveal the strange connections between math and everyday life.” The book fulfills that laudable goal, in part. At times, teenage math prodigy Agnijo Banerjee and his tutor, ...

The word “futurism” was coined by Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti in his famous 1909 manifesto. He later wrote another ...

By encoding mathematical statements into numbers, mathematician Kurt Gödel used ordinary arithmetic to check whether a ...

The fine new “Numbers in Nature: A Mirror Maze” exhibition serves two purposes for the Museum of Science and Industry. It gives the museum a permanent exhibit that covers, in its way, mathematics, ...

The world belongs to the mathematicians and the physicists. We lay people may pump our minds with Discovery Channel specials, but they’re the ones who get to understand how it all really works–how the ...

Most kids' TV programming is lame and not educational. "Numberblocks," a British import that streams on Netflix, is a beacon of light. It's made my kid want to talk about math nonstop. Like most ...

If a 6-month-old can distinguish between 20 dots and 10 dots, she’s more likely to be a good at math in preschool. That’s the conclusion of a new study, which finds that part of our proficiency at ...

Excerpted from "The Grapes of Math: How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life." Numbers were invented to describe precise amounts: three teeth, seven days, twelve goats. When quantities are ...

While many fans know Danica McKellar from her role as Winnie Cooper on "The Wonder Years," she also happens to be a best-selling author of the educational books "Math Doesn't Suck," "Kiss My Math," ...

Although math skills are considered notoriously hard to improve, researchers boosted kindergarteners' arithmetic performance simply by exercising their intuitive number sense with a quick computer ...