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.

Fox’s lecture, and the accompanying colloquium he’ll present on March 11, are part of his three-day appearance as the William and Marjorie Blackwell Scholar-in-Residence program. The program is named ...

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 ...

Math isn’t just assignments and deadlines – it can be playful, creative and enjoyable as a puzzle or a game. That’s the spirit of what University of Virginia School of Data Science master’s student ...

“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 ...

Recreational math may sound like an oxymoron, but it is David Nacin’s guiding principle. Nacin is a former college deejay, yoga devotee and a 14-year mathematics professor at William Paterson ...

In recreational mathematics, the balance scale is an endless source of puzzles that require precise and elaborate logic and teach the fundamentals of generalization. Balance-scale puzzles abound in ...

In what would be his centennial year, Martin Gardner, the longtime author of Scientific American's celebrated Mathematical Games column, continues to inspire mathematicians and puzzle lovers Like a ...