Jeff Smith is a former Math teacher and a retired US Navy Lieutenant Commander. Reach him at [email protected].

The human brain is wired to recognize patterns and detect hidden objects, but only the sharpest minds can do it quickly.

It tells the stories of the Mercury 13, a group of women who trained to be astronauts in 1962, but were denied the ...

The inventor of the Rubik’s Cube didn’t realize he’d built a puzzle until he scrambled it the first time and tried to restore ...

Participants at this year’s Joint Mathematics Meetings explored everything from the role of A.I. to the hyperbolic design of ...