You’ve been cutting your cakes wrong, says Math. Here’s a better, more mathematically accurate method for slicing up a cake. In this video from Numberphile, Alex Bellos digs up a more than ...

Ariel Procaccia has thought a lot about how to cut cake over the last 15 years. That’s partly because the Harvard computer scientist has three children who among them have celebrated more than two ...

Ever since math began to control the world -- shortly after Larry Page and Sergey Brin started their little concern -- I gave myself over to the new power. If math tells me that wearing red will make ...