How many math lovers live in New York City? It’s a tough count to make, but the Museum of Mathematics made progress at its first anniversary celebration on Thursday, December 5. With a mission to ...

Futurama is one of the best science fiction TV shows of all time and unsurprisingly relies heavily on math. First, no matter how many times it gets canceled, it seems to adjust the numbers and pop ...

Calcea Johnson and Ne'Kiya Jackson believe they can prove the Pythagorean Theorem using trigonometry — and are being encouraged to submit their work for peer review Jason Hahn is a former Human ...

Here's a scene from "The Royale," an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation that aired March 27, 1989. In it, Captain Jean-Luc Picard tells his First Officer, Commander Riker, about his work in ...

Do you remember being in school, working on algebra formulas, geometry theorems, and all sorts of math stuff, and wondering, "When will I EVER use this in real life? I'm pretty sure the adult me will ...

A writer for Futurama created a brand new math theorem based on group theory to explain a plot twist in the show. That is like, going way beyond the call of duty, dude. Ken Keeler, the Futurama writer ...

You might be surprised to learn that you can’t comb the hairs flat on a coconut without creating a cowlick. Perhaps even more surprising, this silly claim with an even sillier name, the “hairy ball ...

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