Math

Andrew Wiles thought he had a solution to an age-old puzzle. Until it began to unravel.

Can the spectacle of crashing dominoes shock people out of old habits?

Computers can’t invent, but they’re changing the field anyway.

A simple mathematical model of a sandpile shows remarkably complex behavior.

Want to spin your data? Here’s how.

Rags, riches, and fame in mathematics.

Composer Edward Elgar still has cryptographers playing his tune.

Sorry, education reformers, it’s still memorization and repetition we need.

How the null hypothesis keeps the hairy hominid alive.