Suppose you saw in the news that there was a new disease, and one person was hospitalized with it. There had been no hospitalizations before today—and yet, there ...

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Mathematician Eugenia Cheng explores the uses of math beyond the classroom. Read more columns here. In the era of Covid-19, exponentials have been in the public eye more than usual, since they are at ...

Mathematics often feels straightforward, yet some results challenge the way people instinctively think about numbers. Certain paradoxes and probability problems produce answers that seem impossible at ...