The 'Chaos Foundation,' a non-profit organization dedicated to science culture, is running a 10-week lecture series on mathematics. On the 16th, the Chaos Foundation announced the launch of its spring ...

It's that point when a smooth river turns into a tumultuous swirl of white water, the tornado that unpredictably changes course on a dime or the wild interactions of three planets under one another's ...

NEW YORK — It's not every day that a gala event is devoted to the celebration of math, but that's exactly what happened Tuesday night (Oct. 14), when actor Alan Alda and mathematician Steve Strogatz ...

This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. Two physicists are sitting in a car. One says to the other, ...

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., Sept. 9, 2005- "Coincidences, Chaos, and All That Math Jazz: Making Light of Weighty Ideas" by mathematicians Edward B. Burger and Michael Starbird is "irreverent, entertaining, ...

I once had someone tell me a story of being on an airplane seated next to someone who was writing a dissertation in either math or economics (I forgot which). They asked their companion what their ...