“Mathematical symbolism and metaphor are present in every kind of literature, from the humblest of fairy tales right through to War and Peace,” claims mathematician Sarah Hart. In Once Upon a Prime, ...

You might just watch Futurama and chuckle deeply to yourself—as you should!—but if you study it a little more closely, you’ll find that it’s stuffed full of numbers and math. Ever noticed that the ...

Trees depicted in the artwork of famous painters like Leonardo da Vinci and Piet Mondrian follow the math behind their branching pattern in nature, a new study says. This hidden math in some abstract ...

Termite mounds are remarkable structures that regulate temperature, balance airflow, and maintain structural stability in some of Earth's harshest climates. And like other irregular, disordered ...

A psychological intervention implemented to help students cope and learn more in a tough statistics course did more than just help them in the class, a new study found. Researchers found the ...

Math, as author and University of Wisconsin professor Jordan Ellenberg writes, may not be the most readily accessible subject in school. When faced with a complex equation a student may ask, “When am ...