MathematicsJuly 8, 2024
‘Digital Twins’ Give Olympic Swimmers a Boost
In the Paris 2024 summer Olympics, swimmers will be guided by their digital twin. Here’s how they work to help the fastest swimmers break records
Stories by The Mathematical Intelligencer
The Mathematical Intelligencer is a quarterly journal written in an engaging, informal style for a broad audience. It features expository articles about mathematics (broadly defined), mathematicians (ditto), and the history and culture of mathematics in its intellectual, social and scientific context. Puzzles, poetry and fiction appear in its pages too.
The SciencesJanuary 27, 2020
An Introduction to the Collected Works of Frederick D. Funkle
His body of work is broad but unnervingly shallow
The SciencesApril 9, 2019
Proof Without Words
The sum of squares
The SciencesMarch 14, 2019
Chemical π
Using the periodic table to memorize that celebrated number
The SciencesFebruary 26, 2019
The Entertainer
In praise of Raymond Smullyan: logician, magician, mathematician, puzzlist and philosopher
The SciencesNovember 9, 2018
Proofs and Guarantees
We can prove things in math, but does that mean they’re true?
The SciencesOctober 18, 2018
Do the Golden State Warriors Have Hot Hands?
Scoring streaks have long fascinated sports professionals and researchers, yet they are not close to consensus on the right way to think about the issue
The SciencesSeptember 14, 2018
Burning Man’s Mathematical Underbelly
It’s mostly an art festival, but attendees are impressively fascinated with science and math
The SciencesApril 4, 2018
The Same, Only Different
A column about the surprising cultural, structural, philosophical, and mystical features common to mathematics and food
The SciencesMarch 20, 2018
Privacy and Counterfeit Coins
Do fake coins really need a lawyer’s protection in the courtroom?
The SciencesJanuary 31, 2018
Painting New Lines: Maximizing Color Difference in Metro Maps
The SciencesNovember 16, 2017
Math at the Met
Amid the museum’s 2 million works of art lie numerous mathematical curiosities