Pi Day (March 14) is a day of global mathematical celebration, but it’s not the only numerically significant calendar date.

Pi Day (3/14) often comes with sweet treats; Square Root Day (4/4/16 or 5/5/25, for example) has a certain numerical rhyme.

It’s a staple of popular fiction, but two mathematicians in Australia now say that an age-old maxim is nothing more than bananas. The Infinite Monkey Theorem hypothesizes that, given a typewriter and ...

Exploring the fascinating math behind the wobbly table theorem and testing if there are situations where it might fail.