God Plays Dice

Not only does God throw dice, but Einstein does too , or at least a stencil of him on a wall in the Upper Haight in San Francisco does. Thi...

I went to the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia today. As you may know, the Constitution provides that, in elections for the Pre...

As you may have heard, there's a match at Wimbledon , between John Isner and Nicolas Mahut, in which the last set is tied at 59 games. ...

The final standings in Group C of the 2010 World Cup were as follows: USA 5, England 5, Slovenia 4, Algeria 1. Question : given this informa...

An example of a bad word problem, from Frank Quinn's article The Nature of Contemporary Core Mathematics , who is at Virginia Tech: Bub...

As some of you may have noticed, I spend lots of time at MathOverflow these days. This explains my lack of posting. Actually, my lack of p...

How to explain Euler's identity using triangles and spirals , by Brian Slesinsky . (Euler's identity refers, here, to e iπ = -1.) ...