You’re standing at the edge of a cliff, phone in hand, trying to measure the distance to the opposite side – no tape measure, no drone, just your brain. Now what? Trigonometry just became your ...

For over two millennia, mathematicians agreed on one thing: you can’t use trigonometry to prove Pythagoras’ Theorem—because ...

In the 1930s, a mathematician by the name of Nicolas Bourbaki was said to frequent the Café Capoulade in Paris, a haven for artists and intellectuals near Luxembourg Gardens. There he wrote an ...