A question posed by Sir Walter Raleigh about cannonballs inadvertently led to a puzzle that mathematicians have been trying ...

IntroductionWe will try to represent "sprites," which were often used in old-school game programming, using HTML Canvas and ...

It’s been 250 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence — a milestone that invites not just celebration, but reflection. To illustrate two and a half centuries of U.S. history, Here & ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. In January 2025 I was in Santa Clara, California writing some JavaScript to perform some reporting. I wanted to be ...

Typically, any object that has been around longer than we have can give us a feeling of warmth. For example, scuffed-up wooden chairs, ceramics that have a small crack, and black-and-white photos ...

A Mathematician with early access to XAI Grok 4.20, found a new Bellman function for one of the problems he had been working on with my student N. Alpay. Not an Erdős problem, but original research.

There is a rule in mathematics that feels so obvious it barely seems worth stating. Yet accepting it leads to objects with no size, spheres that duplicate themselves, and sets that cannot be measured ...

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When a delicate object crashes onto the floor, most people expect it to shatter into several pieces. What they might not know, however, is that the sizes of those fragments—whether from a broken plate ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...