This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Golomb also drew my attention to a class of ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Julia Robinson was born on December 8, 1919.

For many philosophers not automatically inclined to Platonism, the indispensability argument for the existence of mathematical objects has provided the best (and perhaps only) evidence for ...

Math has long been a bane to American students. One way to counteract the difficulty is to discover the subject’s playful side. In this excerpt, a math professor reflects on recreational math and the ...

We can all enjoy the elegance of brilliant logical arguments and appreciate the beauty of mathematical structures and symmetries without being skilled creators of new theorems. Many people derive ...

Adam DeHollander, of Byron Center, a senior at Jenison International Academy, joined an exclusive group this year. He competed in the popular math competition called MathCON. He took an online ...

“The line between entertaining math and serious math is a blurry one,” Martin Gardner wrote in the August 1998 issue of Scientific American. Gardner, who died in 2010, was this magazine's Mathematical ...

Math has long been a bane to American students. One way to counteract the difficulty is to discover the subject’s playful side. Manil Suri, a mathematics professor at the University of Maryland who is ...