Discover a fast and powerful calculus-based method for finding square roots with impressive accuracy. This explanation shows ...

It’s the rare child who’ll choose an afternoon of math homework over a family vacation. That’s partly because of the negative way that we talk about and teach math, says Chris Emdin, a professor of ...

Squaring a square sounds simple, but the math behind it is one of the strangest puzzles ever created. It requires cutting a square into smaller squares—all different sizes—with a pattern that doesn’t ...

When it comes to hard problems, computer scientists seem to be stuck. Consider, for example, the notorious problem of finding the shortest round-trip route that passes through every city on a map ...

In] any piece of beautiful mathematics, you almost always find that there is a physical system which actually mirrors the ...

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — It was officially announced Sunday that Arkansas had landed on Ryan Silverfield as its new head football coach. The hiring received mixed reactions from fans and ...

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HISTORIANS of mathematics attribute the first use of the cross x as a symbol for multiplication to William Oughtred (“Clavis Mathematicae”, London, 1631). See W. W. R. Ball's “Short Account of the ...