Math is key to everything, from music and art to the sequencing of traffic lights and the scheduling of package deliveries. Just figuring out the order in which you’ll run a bunch of errands involves ...

The Wheel of Fire. Square-wheeeled trikes. The Twist 'n' Roll. Hyper hyperboloids. No, it's not a traveling circus, it's MoMath, the nation's only museum of mathematics, which opens Saturday in New ...

The National Museum of Mathematics' square wheels demonstration required finding a building with enough space between columns to fit the exhibit. Kevin Smith | New ...

The quants have been performing especially well in this year's choppy markets. How do they do it? You won't hear any of the brainiacs at firms such as Renaissance Technologies and Two Sigma ...

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It's crazy but true (insert comment about terrible U.S. math scores here). Glen Whitney and Cindy Lawrence are doing something about it. "Math is not considered cool in the United States," Lawrence ...