math

The theoretical cord wouldn't just break a climber's fall—it would also brake it.

It's one of the game's many unintended consequences.

Researchers say kids who spent five minutes playing a computer game scored significantly higher on math tests afterward.

Prime numbers can be "sexy" if they’re six apart, like 5 and 11—and that's not the only adjective that has a special meaning when applied to numbers.

Some enterprising students decided to find out.

Perfect your blackjack skills with a little arithmetic.

It won't happen again for another nine years.

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Why did this brilliant mind end his days in prison?

Can a little calculus make a total novice into a gambling pro? Mental Floss did the homework and took a trip to Atlantic City to find out.

The only winning move is not to play (because the game is rigged).

An Oxford University researcher has developed an equation to debunk some of the world's biggest conspiracy theories.

It was an era in NASA's early development when, as mathematician Katherine G. Johnson put it, “the computer wore a skirt.”

Calculations etched onto four stone tablets change the timeline of astronomy.

The person who discovered it broke his previous record by over five million digits.

Using data from the 2004 American Time Use Survey, statistician Nathan Yau created a simulation of an average 24 hours in the lives of 1000 Americans.

A group of researchers at the University of Alberta have developed what may be the first mathematical theory of humor, all thanks to a funny-sounding nonsense word: snunkoople.