Geometry is packed with terminology that precisely describes the way various points, lines, surfaces and other dimensional elements interact with one another. Sometimes they are ridiculously ...

Tests taken by an Amazonian tribe indicate that children understand the basic principles of geometry without an education. Amazonian children in the Mundurucu tribe could solve basic problems with ...

*Originally published on May 11, 2022. Give Jordan Ellenberg a number and he'll tell you its square root. It's a party trick he used to do in college. The mathematician is a child prodigy. He scored a ...

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You’re standing at the edge of a cliff, phone in hand, trying to measure the distance to the opposite side – no tape measure, no drone, just your brain. Now what? Trigonometry just became your ...

The body of knowledge and practice known as mathematics is derived from the contributions of thinkers throughout the ages and across the globe. It gives us a way to understand patterns, to quantify ...

There was a time that I thought that understanding math was more useful than memorizing it. A certain amount of memorization is essential, especially for lower-level math. For example, you need to ...