Steven Bradlow, a professor in Mathematics, was recently featured on the Youtube channel Numberphile. Bradlow and his son often watched these videos, and after meeting one of the creators of the ...
Here's a fun math puzzle to brighten your day. Say you've got four 4s—4 4 4 4—and you're allowed to place any normal math symbols around them. How many different numbers can you make? According to the ...
Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Numberphile revived an ancient multiplication trick—halves and doubles—also called Egyptian or Russian math, where you repeatedly halve one number ...
Right now, the best place to look for nerdy sweets is, of course, The Simpsons. It has a writing staff chockablock with mathematicians, so, inevitably funny little math bits creep in. The jokes they ...