Frank Benford observed that the number one seems to pop up a lot in both in the supermarket and on tax bills. In unde...

Speed is such a common term that it's easy to forget how much of a role maths plays in understanding it. Until three ...

A circle is also a triangle and a triangle is a square. Sound impossible? Not in the realm of topology, which even ap...

In this episode of our travels in the land of maths, we are heading towards Infinity. And even beyond, because infini...

In this episode, we look at the relationship between maths and truth. Maths is meant to be certain, either right or w...

Two prisoners must choose between cooperation and betrayal without consulting each other. This famous prisoner's dile...

In October 1970 Scientific American magazine introduced a game under the heading “Mathematical Games” that quickly be...

25 centuries ago, the well-ordered world of natural integers and fractions had to expand to accommodate monsters like...

We have known for a long time that some equations can't be solved as the answers are numbers that don't exist. Fortun...

End of the trips in the land of math with an arduous hike. It is better to be strong on the complex plane. Because it...