Say someone sets out to prove, by contradiction, that something is a joke. You would have to assume the opposite of what she’s proving is true. You would follow her thoughts logically until a ...

If Mr. Murphy of “Murphy's Law” fame [1] had been a mathematician he would have had a warning something along the lines of: “Beware of Square Root of 2 errors ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

The #1 Rule Experts Say to Follow When You Forget Wet Clothes in the Washer Watch a camera capture its own demise while ...

The square root of 2 has been calculated to 1,000,000 decimals on a large-scale digital computer and the result has been verified. The calculation was based on a specially developed algorithm for ...

Somewhere around middle school, you learned about squaring numbers and the inverse, finding the square root of a number, but a little reminder can't hurt. You square a number when you multiply it by ...

Happy Square Root Day! Apparently, April 4, 2016 is one of the unofficial holidays that occur when the month and day are the square root of the last two digits of the year. (In this case, month number ...