Math is key to everything, from music and art to the sequencing of traffic lights and the scheduling of package deliveries. Just figuring out the order in which you’ll run a bunch of errands involves ...

The Wheel of Fire. Square-wheeeled trikes. The Twist 'n' Roll. Hyper hyperboloids. No, it's not a traveling circus, it's MoMath, the nation's only museum of mathematics, which opens Saturday in New ...

The National Museum of Mathematics' square wheels demonstration required finding a building with enough space between columns to fit the exhibit. Kevin Smith | New ...

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It's crazy but true (insert comment about terrible U.S. math scores here). Glen Whitney and Cindy Lawrence are doing something about it. "Math is not considered cool in the United States," Lawrence ...

If you enter Madison Square Park in New York City from the south end, your eye will be immediately drawn to the latest sculpture installation, Buckyball, by artist Leo Villareal. These nesting ...