Math
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How to Flatten a Cube
A bit of background on this: In 2008, Mythbusters made a lead balloon. To construct the balloon, Adam taped together…
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Erasing Mileva Marić-Einstein, The Woman Behind Einstein’s Math. (Women in Science 72)
Content Note: By the end of this article, you are not going to like Albert Einstein much. If this is…
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The Billion Roads From Here to There: The Graph Theory Combinatorics of Fan Chung (Women in Science 63)
“Well, some go this way, some go that way. But as for me, myself, personally, I prefer the short-cut.” –…
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WIP Weekend: Making Women in Science.
Why hello there! It’s Dale, the chap who writes the Women in Science cartoon column here every other Wednesday, and…
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Hyperbolic Crochet
I never took any of the classes in the excellent fiber department at my art school. Maybe I thought it…
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Trajectories: Katherine Johnson’s Orbital Mathematics. (Women in Science 60)
Before NASA, there was NACA, an oddball collection of aeronautics nerds using black box data and wind tunnel analysis to…
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Go Forth and Make a Piece of Pi
(Above) “Power of Pi” hand drawn with pencil, ruler, and compass by Jason Padgett. There’s still time to make something…
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Higher Mathematics Meets High Culture
Marcus du Sautoy is a mathematician known for bringing an appreciation of mathematics to the masses. He’s done many television…
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