The universe appears fond of special numbers. Some come from geometry, like π or the square root of two. Some, like the fine structure constant, connect stars being able to shine to why buttered bread ...

College second-year Maike Anthony is a two-time Guinness World Record-holder. In 2022, as a high school student in Brazil, he ...

Pi Day is here! We bet that you know that famous constant to a few decimal points, and you could probably explain what it really means: the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. But what ...

The Babylonians used separate combinations of two symbols to represent every single number from 1 to 59. That sounds pretty confusing, doesn’t it? Our decimal system seems simple by comparison ...

At first glance, the multisets of positive integers that add to n, known as integer partitions, and Euler’s number e do not have much in common. However, if you take the reciprocal product of the ...