Math seems to be one of those things that you either love or you hate.  I could sit and do math homework for hours and, for the most part, enjoy doing it.  As backpacking for next semester’s classes approaches, my friend has realized that she has to take another math class.  She absolutely dreads any kind of [...]

Here’s an interesting math problem you probably wouldn’t have heard in your standard high school / middle school math classes: How many people do I have to have in a room such that the probability that two of those people have the same birthday is over 50%? One might think that there are 365 possible [...]

I think one of my favorite math classes I have taken was Calculus II, which I took it my senior year of high school with a group of good friends. I had an amazing teacher and the class environment was a lot of fun. Most of all, the material was incredibly interesting and mathematically fascinating. [...]

Computers have defeated the world’s greatest human chess players. Computers can sift through the huge expanse of the Internet to find you the best search result. Computers can even tell when someone is pregnant before their parents find out. These days, it might seem like computers can tackle any sort of problem. This is not true. Furthermore, the [...]

Here’s a tough question for you: Suppose you have a flexible ball that can pass through itself [perhaps use different language here, difficult to think about the answer without understanding the question] , can you flip the ball inside out with out cutting it, and without making any creases or seams in the ball? If [...]

For so many of us, mathematics can be a daunting field. Math often seems like an insurmountable obstacle, which we may feel will never prove useful or relevant in our lives. However, math, like other fields, is a topic that is not merely understandable, but can often be quite interesting and even amusing. If you [...]