One of the great episodes in the history of mathematics began on October 23, 1852. In a letter to Sir William Rowan Hamilton, Augustus De Morgan wrote, “A student of mine asked me today to give him a ...

The theory of coloring deals with the problem of labeling parts of a graph to comply with certain rules and avoid specific conflicts. For example, imagine you wanted to color each dot below so that ...

In the fall of 1972, Vance Faber was a new professor at the University of Colorado. When two influential mathematicians, Paul Erdős and László Lovász, came for a visit, Faber decided to host a tea ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. An amateur mathematician just partially solved a problem that has vexed mathematicians since 1950 ...

Have you ever tried to do the brainteaser below, where you have to connect the dots to make the outline of a house in one continuous stroke without going back over your lines? Or perhaps you've ...