An airplane, traveling with a constant engine speed, makes a large and perfect circle parallel to the ground. There is no ...

A crop circle thought to be inspired by a formula acclaimed as the most beautiful in all mathematics has appeared on a hillside in Wiltshire. By Matthew Moore and Matthewmoore 24 May 2010 • 5:30pm The ...

Evan O’Dorney leaps from his seat and snatches the chalk from his teacher’s hand. “I think it goes like this,” the eighth-grader exclaims. He has come up with a formula for the number of ways to ...

It’s 10 a.m. on a Saturday at Cal State Fullerton and students are revved up. It’s Math Circle time. Math Circle is a Saturday program for students in second through 12th grade, most of whom are ...

The circumference of a circle = \(\pi d\) or \(2\pi r\). Look at the sector of the circle shown below. To calculate the length of the arc, we need to know what fraction of the circle is shown. To do ...

Silva Chang’s Colorado Math Circle recently hosted a Puzzlepalooza competition at the University of Colorado Boulder on December 7. The Colorado Math Circle is an organization directed by Silva Chang ...

If you’ve dealt with reactance, you surely know the two equations for computing inductive and capacitive reactance. But unless you’ve really dug into it, you may only know the formula the way a school ...

Cody Cottier is a freelance journalist for Discover Magazine, who frequently covers new scientific studies about animal behavior, human evolution, consciousness, astrophysics, and the environment.