The ancient Greeks wanted to believe that the universe could be described in its entirety using only whole numbers and the ratios between them — fractions, or what we now call rational numbers. But ...

If Mr. Murphy of “Murphy's Law” fame [1] had been a mathematician he would have had a warning something along the lines of: “Beware of Square Root of 2 errors ...

Somewhere around middle school, you learned about squaring numbers and the inverse, finding the square root of a number, but a little reminder can't hurt. You square a number when you multiply it by ...

Today is Cinco de Mayo. And this year, the fifth of May is filled with mathematical joy. It is — Square Root Day! It all started in 1981. "I was writing a check in late August," says Ron Gordon, who ...