Again, the secret is how you’re wrapping all the way around the item. A diamond orientation means you’re folding over right ...

The Artificial Intelligence chatbot, ChatGPT, appeared to improvise ideas and make mistakes like a student in a study that rebooted a 2,400-year-old mathematical challenge. The experiment, by two ...

The Greek philosopher Plato wrote about Socrates challenging a student with the "doubling the square" problem in about 385 B.C.E. When asked to double the area of a square, the student doubled the ...

For example, one group of teachers who participated in the study were able to work collaboratively to navigate to each of the vertices of a cube along a diagonal path. More information: Justin Dimmel ...

At the annual Bridges conference, mathematical creativity was on dazzling display. By Siobhan Roberts It’s not much of an exaggeration to say that the Dutch sculptor Rinus Roelofs organizes his life ...

This is an updated version of a story first published on May 5, 2024. For many high school students returning to class, it may seem like geometry and trigonometry were created by the Greeks as a form ...

We like to say that anything is possible. In Norton Juster’s novel The Phantom Tollbooth, the king refuses to tell Milo that his quest is impossible because “so many things are possible just as long ...

Well, what is the best way to cut a sandwich in half? Surely triangles don't really have "more sandwich," right? That's geometry and the law of conservation of matter. But something about the ...