It’s an eternal question for generations of math students: How am I going to use this in the real world? At Bates, Meredith Greer answers that question with an entire course, “Mathematics Across the ...
Listeners contacted us to correct the answer to a clue from last week's puzzle, giving NPR's Ayesha Rascoe and Weekend Edition puzzlemaster Will Shortz a lesson in trigonometry. OK, so hold on, Will.
A 3,700-year-old Babylonian clay tablet reveals the oldest known trigonometric table, showing ancient scribes used precise triangle ratios.
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