Albert Einstein encountered a curious math puzzle involving an old car on a hill. The problem, seemingly simple, highlighted ...

Standing at the intersection between mathematics and the tiler's trade is the so-called einstein problem. Despite its name, this mathematical question has nothing to do with the Nobel Prize winner ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (PIX11) — A clue in the New York ...

Look carefully! Mathematicians have invented a new 13-sided shape that can be tiled infinitely without ever repeating a pattern. They call it "the einstein." For decades, mathematicians wondered if it ...

In 1934, <a href="https://www.menshealth.com/health/a30268860/negativity-effect/" id="10a1af0c-54d5-3326-afd4-f24cff019809"> psychologist </a> Max Wertheimer sent a ...

“It’s sitting right in the hexagons. How many people are going to be kicking themselves around the world wondering, why didn’t I see that?” MARJORIE SENECHAL, a mathematician at Smith College, after ...

Those architects of modern education obsessed with abandoning the humanities in favor of the so-called STEM subjects (science, technology, engineering and math) should pause to consider the words of ...

The same researchers behind the 13-sided "hat" shape have stumbled upon a version that improves upon the original in a very important way. Reading time 2 minutes In March, a group of mathematicians ...

The Mathematics Teacher (MT), an official journal of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, is devoted to improving mathematics instruction from grade 8-14 and supporting teacher education ...

How much of a role did Albert Einstein's first wife play in the theory of relativity? In recent years, some historians have asserted that Einstein shared the credit for his research on the special ...