BoingBoing
SUBSCRIBE STORE
  • SEARCH
  • STORE
  • Blog : The posts
  • Forums : Read the rules
  • Store : Wonderful Products (Contact Support)
  • Newsletter : Daily wonderful things
  • About Us : Writers and staff
  • Contact Us : Get satisfaction
  • Advertise : Thank you for reading
  • Privacy Policy : The data you generate
  • TOS : What you agree to
  • Thumbnails : Youtube Thumbnail generator
  • mathematics The chaos game creates patterns from random dice rolls Andrea James
  • Adam Savage Adam Savage and Numberphile's Matt Parker discuss math-love and Matt's latest book, Humble Pi Gareth Branwyn
  • brain teasers Can you figure out what number comes next? Carla Sinclair
  • video This Mondrian math puzzle yields puzzling scores Andrea James
  • video How a child math prodigy sees numbers as shapes Andrea James
  • physics Why swirling spheres shift rotation at a certain number Andrea James
  • math Fix your floppy pizza slice with Gaussian curvature Andrea James
  • math A 14-year-old wins award for program that calculates antiprime numbers Mark Frauenfelder
  • math Math's incredibly fun "Levine Sequence" simply explained Carla Sinclair
  • toys Why this sliding tile puzzle arrangement is impossible Mark Frauenfelder
  • Games In this tic-tac-toe variant played with all X's, the loser is actually the winner David Pescovitz
  • recreational math 42 was the last remaining number below 100 which could not be expressed as the sum of three cubes – until now Mark Frauenfelder
  • recreational math A mathematician explores the cat-and-mouse problem Mark Frauenfelder
  • recreational math Three interesting infinite series Mark Frauenfelder
  • Kids Math theorem: the most misshapen ham sandwich can always be cut into two perfect halves Andrea James
  • Science Why does a crumpled paper balloon inflate when batted around? Andrea James
  • video Great video primer on the mathematics of auctions Andrea James
  • How to cut a cake fairly for three people David Pescovitz
  • video Trippy 3D-printed spheres that help conceptualize 4D Andrea James
  • video Numberphile looks at mathematics' undecidable statements Andrea James

Read the rules you agree to by using this website in our Terms of Service.

We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites.

Boing Boing uses cookies and analytics trackers, and is supported by advertising, merchandise sales and affiliate links. Read about what we do with the data we gather in our Privacy Policy.

Who will be eaten first? Our forum rules are detailed in the Community Guidelines.

Boing Boing is published under a Creative Commons license except where otherwise noted.

    • Mark Frauenfelder
    • David Pescovitz
    • Rob Beschizza
    • Carla Sinclair
    Editors
    • Jason Weisberger
    Publisher
    • Ken Snider
    Sysadmin
    • About Us
    • Newsletter
    • Contact Us
    • Advertise
    • Forums
    • Shop
    • Shop Support
Please support Boing Boing!
Get all the day's posts in one ad-free email for just $5 a month.
Subscribe now!