The Most Boring Number in the World Is …
What is your favorite number? Many people may have an irrational number in mind, such as pi (π), Euler’s number…
‘Nasty’ Geometry Breaks a Decades-Old Tiling Conjecture
One of the oldest and simplest problems in geometry has caught mathematicians off guard—and not for the first time. Since…
How Many Yottabytes in a Quettabyte? Extreme Numbers Get New Names
By the 2030s, the world will generate around a yottabyte of data per year—that’s 1024 bytes, or the amount that would…
Geometry Reveals the Tricks behind Gerrymandering
Hardly anyone reckoned that struggling in high school to calculate the area of a triangle or the volume of a…