Ever since math began to control the world -- shortly after Larry Page and Sergey Brin started their little concern -- I gave myself over to the new power. If math tells me that wearing red will make ...

Important update, Jan. 17 at 18:00 UTC: There have been a lot of objections raised about the video mentioned below and the way I describe the math therein. It’s more than I can simply add or update ...

If you overlay a copy of random dots on itself, and then rotate it, magic — or, rather, a trick of geometry and pattern recognition — happens. As Numberphile’s Tadashi Tokieda (who previously brought ...

Imagine you're a mapmaker, ready to finish your masterpiece map of the world. The only thing left to do is add the colors. But how many colors do you need for the countries if you want to make sure no ...