Bayesian logic and Bayesian statistics explained simply. Learn how probability updates with new evidence and why Bayesian theory matters.

Before calculators, before computers, and even before written math, a simple frame of beads was already solving complex problems.

What can we make of a design that shows up over and over in disparate cultures throughout history? Theorist Terry Moore explores "Penrose tiling" -- two shapes that fit together in infinite combinations without ever repeating -- and ponders what it might...

The dice game 10,000 (also known as Ten Thousand, Farkle, or Greed) is a fun, fast-paced game played with six dice. Great form families and kids learning math. The goal is to be the first player to reach 10,000 points.

Euclid was an ancient Greek mathematician and logician, often referred to as the "father of geometry". He's best known for his 13-book series, Euclid's Elements, which established the foundations of geometry and influenced Western mathematics for over 2,0...

Fahrenheit, explained to the rest of the world.

12 year-old Suborno Bari is the youngest person accepted into New York University.

This theory, also known as the God Equation, would unify all the basic concepts of physics into one. According to Kaku, the best, most "mathematically consistent" candidate so far is string theory, but there are objections.

Donald in Mathmagic Land is an American live-action animated featurette produced by Walt Disney Productions and featuring Donald Duck. The short was directed by Hamilton Luske and was released on June 26, 1959.

A high school teacher didn’t expect a solution when she set a 2,000-year-old Pythagorean Theorem problem in front of her students.

Physicist Werner Heisenberg said, “When I meet God, I am going to ask him two questions: why relativity? And why turbulence? I really believe he will have an answer for the first.” As difficult as turbulence is to understand mathematically, we can use art...

Why does the western world, who are proudly descended from the Romans, use the Arabic Numeral system instead of the Roman one? You can find out why and when that change happened in this short and simple animated documentary.

In mathematics and computer programming, the order of operations is a collection of rules that reflect conventions about which procedures to perform first in order to evaluate a given mathematical expression.

Like many heroes of Greek myths, the philosopher Hippasus was rumored to have been mortally punished by the gods. But what was his crime? Did he murder guests or disrupt a sacred ritual? No, Hippasus's transgression was mathematically proving the hitherto...

In the world of math, many strange results are possible when we change the rules. But there’s one rule that most of us have been warned not to break: don’t divide by zero. How can the simple combination of an everyday number and a basic operation cause su...