Put a ball in a box. In two dimensions, the ball (a circle) fills most of the box (a square). In three dimensions, a sphere still takes up a good chunk of its cube. But keep adding dimensions, and ...

What do a 20th-century physicist, an 18th-century statistician and an ancient Greek philosopher have in common? They all knew how to extrapolate with incredible accuracy. Columnist Jacob Aron explains ...

Baez called for the development of new mathematics — he called it “green” math — to better capture the workings of Earth’s biosphere and climate. For his part, he sought to apply category theory, a ...

Abstract: We propose a time-discretization scheme for time-dependent reliability problems. It takes a general, “black-box” limit-state function (LSF) with a fine temporal mesh and a small number of ...

We can tie knots in three dimensions because one-dimensional ropes “catch on each other”. This is why a long rope wound around itself, if done right, won’t come apart. We trust knots with our lives ...

Since ancient Greece, researchers have tried to isolate special rational points on curves. Now they have the first ever formula that applies uniformly to all curves ...

Kindergarten students counting, sorting and stacking blocks may not seem significant, but how well they understand numbers at that age can shape their confidence with math, their success in courses ...

Let’s keep things simple – this is basic math. Nothing scary. Just everyday calculations, a bit of geometry, some number patterns, and the kind of stuff you definitely learned in school at some point.

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SPRINGFIELD — Legislation that would assist the Chicago Bears’ stalled effort to move from the lakefront to a new domed stadium in Arlington Heights has “positive momentum” after languishing for years ...