From Plato’s search for hidden forms to Bernoulli’s law of large numbers and Markov’s breakthrough on dependent events, this story traces how mathematicians discovered the patterns hidden inside ...

It’ll always change. Always unbundling and re-bundling. And once you see the pattern, you can appreciate that nothing is permanent — and that all changes follow the same logic. No direction is set ...

David Cutler is in the spotlight for his work on a tasty-sounding mathematics problem. In January, the New York Times featured a research paper authored by Cutler and Neil Sloane, the founder of The ...