Three years after Seattle software developer Emma Haruka Iwao and her teammates at Google set the world record for calculating pi precisely, they’ve done it again. Thanks to Iwao and… Read More
What’s $3 million divided by 347? That’s the math problem to be solved by the physicists on the Event Horizon Telescope team, who won one of the top awards in… Read More
– The dilemma of raising kids as a working mother arose when women entered the workforce en masse in the mid-1900s. A study from Edison Research published in 2018 shows… Read More
What’s the best way to celebrate Pi Day? That’s the geeky holiday that takes place on 3/14 … in other words, today. For some, it’s a day for baking geeky… Read More
Maybe it’s time to put the pi back in Pi Day. I remember a time when 3/14 really stood for something: namely, the calendar date that came closest to the… Read More
A program that’s richer than the Nobels rewarded more than a dozen researchers tonight with Breakthrough Prize awards amounting to $25.4 million in all. The Breakthrough Prize program was founded in… Read More
One coffee drinker’s perfect brew may be another drinker’s battery acid, but mathematicians say they’re zeroing in on the equations behind the taste of drip coffee. The University of Limerick’s Kevin… Read More
Four Washington educators are among the 213 mathematics and science teachers named by President Obama Monday as recipients of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching. The prestigious award… Read More
The math behind this week’s upcoming $1.4 billion Powerball drawing boggles the mind, but at least a few minds were boggled beyond the bounds of arithmetic. One photo posted to… Read More