For over a century, a simple yet tricky math problem had continued to baffle experts. Mathematicians struggled to find the fewest number of pieces needed to cut an equilateral triangle and rearrange ...

The Mathematical Gazette is the original journal of the Mathematical Association and it is now over a century old. Its readership is a mixture of school teachers, college and university lecturers, ...

Have you ever wondered why we call numbers that are divisible by two "even" and all the others "odd?" What makes things like one, three, five and seven any more odd than two, four, six or eight that ...