Rene Descartes' health may have been troubled, but his genius was completely intact. His survival led to an amazing perspective about why we are here, and the truth behind that notion.Thus the whole of philosophy is like...

The Monty Hall Problem is a common mathematical fallacy based on Monty Hall's game show Let's Make a Deal. It works like this: Imagine that you’re in a game show and your host shows you three doors. Behind one of t...

(YouTube Link) We've previously featured Cristóbal Vila's animated depiction of Frank Lloyd Wright's home Falling Water. Vila's latest project, "Nature By Numbers", illustrates how mathematical properties, such as...

And now for something completely different.  A math puzzle.  Or conundrum, if you will. In the figure to the left, the bar above the number 9 indicates that it is to be repeated forever.  For the remainder of this...

That's 123 billion digits more than the previous number. Computer scientist Fabrice Bellard ran his calculations on a desktop computer, taking 131 days to run the program and then check the results: Previous records...

The Salary Theorem proves mathematically that those who know more make less money. Therefore, if you know nothing, you should be fabulously wealthy! Link -via Digg...

The Fibonacci sequence, named after a 13th Century Italian mathematician, is a sequence of numbers in which every third number is the sum of the previous two numbers. This ring and others like it by Etsy seller Holmes C...

(YouTube link) Professor Matthew Weathers went the extra mile for his math lecture Wednesday at Biola University. Who says math isn't fun? -via Cynical-C...

Michael Tennesen writes in Scientific American that biologists suspect that robins, baby chicks, rhesus monkeys, and parrots may have the ability to count. Although they may not have fixed numerals, they have have conce...

Chris Matyszczyk explains that the laws of probability indicate when you should settle for one prospective mate, and when you should keep on looking. There's a point of diminishing returns in a succession of relationshi...