For mathematician and "mathemagician" Arthur Benjamin, the best way to illustrate the basic concept of algebra is with a little magic trick: "Think of a number between one and ten. Now, double it. Add ...

* His latest book is "The Magic of Math: Solving for x and figuring out why." He will bring his Great Courses DVDs, which focus on the joy of math to games and puzzles. * Benjamin is a competitive ...

The first time I encountered a column in Scientific American entitled “Mathematical Games,” I thought it was a contradiction in terms. Along with most English majors, I equated math with drudgery, not ...

Mathematician Persi Diaconis of Stanford University in California ran away from home in his teens to perform card tricks. As he publishes a book on the mathematics of magic, co-authored with juggler ...

Where other people see just plain numbers, Aziz S. Inan sees beautiful connections — and in honor of the late moonwalker Neil Armstrong's birthday on Monday, the University of Portland engineering ...

While most of would reach for our calculators to do the sums or even a PC (as the average handheld calculator lacks adequate space to display the result), 76-year-old LS Doshi has no such problem.