A story of bowling pins, patterns and medical miracles.
- The New York Times, June 30, 2025
How a Puzzle About Fractions Got Brain Scans Rolling→
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Essays
How Bees, Beer Cans and Data Solve the Same Packing Problem→
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Trying to fit it all in? There’s a trick to it, even in 24 dimensions.
- The New York Times, June 23, 2025
What the Golden Ratio Says About Your Belly Button→
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The secret beauty in apples, stars and the center of you.
- The New York Times, June 16, 2025
Where Pi Equals 4 and Circles Aren’t Round→
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In the world of taxicab geometry, even the Pythagorean theorem takes a back seat.
- The New York Times, June 9, 2025
Who's Afraid of Big Numbers?→
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Pretty much everyone. But it doesn’t have to be that way, two mathematicians contend.
-The New York Times, June 17, 2021
That Vexing Math Equation? Here’s an Addition→
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The confusion (likely intentional) boiled down to a discrepancy between the math rules used in grade school and in high school.
-The New York Times, August 5, 2019
The Math Equation That Tried to Stump the Internet→
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Sometimes BODMAS is just PEMDAS by another name. And no, the answer is not 100.
- The New York Times, August 2, 2019
Pi Day: How One Irrational Number Made Us Modern→
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The famous mathematical ratio, estimated to more than 22 trillion digits (and counting), is the perfect symbol for our species’ long effort to tame infinity.
- The New York Times, March 14, 2019
One Giant Step for a Chess-Playing Machine→
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The stunning success of AlphaZero, a deep-learning algorithm, heralds a new age of insight—one that, for humans, may not last long.
- The New York Times, December 26, 2018
Visualizing Vastness→
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Shrinking the solar system down to size
- The New York Times, October 15, 2012
Dangerous Intersection→
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Catastrophe theory, sleep, and the economy
- The New York Times, October 8, 2012
It’s My Birthday Too, Yeah→
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The day Johnny Carson met the birthday problem
- The New York Times, October 1, 2012
Einstein's boyhood proof of the Pythagorean theorem foreshadows the scientist he later became.
- The New Yorker
November 19, 2015