You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Yet another viral math equation is taking over Twitter, with many users struggling to figure out how ...

But now, two mathematician friends have used their quarantine time to crack a variation of the age-old geometry problem. They analyzed a set of loopy shapes called smooth, continuous curves to prove ...

In the third century BCE, Apollonius of Perga asked how many circles one could draw that would touch three given circles at exactly one point each. It would take 1,800 years to prove the answer: eight ...