The most self-effacing of all maths.
Hotel Infinity: Quiet Hours
You don't always want to encounter infinity in a strange hotel ...
2×2=5 Talkin’ Blues (Video)
Finally, a video version of our earlier all-comics proof ... But could it be true? (Can you spot the error?)
Pythagorean Maxims #16-30
More lifestyle advice from our brilliant & eccentric Ancient Greek mathematician ...
Patterns of Ideas (Hardy)
Quoting G. H. Hardy's 1940 essay, "A Mathematician's Apology"...
Mathematics is an Art (Lockhart)
One reader's notes to Paul Lockhart's thought-provoking "A Mathematician's Lament" ...
Pythagorean Maxims #1-15
"Rules of the Good Life," according to one of Ancient Greece's most amazing mathematicians ...
100 Pounds of Apples
Here's a delicious puzzle with a counter-intuitive result, based on the "potato paradox":
Alexander Horned Steer
The final image ever captured by our late Mythematical Beasts Dept. editor ...
Escher’s “Approaches to Infinity” Part 1
The first of a finite series of comics adapting Escher's 1971 essay...
Talkin’ 2×2=5 Blues
Are we allowed to do talkin' blues algebra proofs? ~ If NOT, maybe this is why -- here's one inspired by Lewis Carroll. ~ Goes a little like this...
Math Flower
"When are we ever gonna see this in the REAL WORLD?"