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A detail of the Mandelbrot set, a fractal named after Benoit Mandelbrot, the French mathematician who investigated it in the 1970s. If you were to zoom in at any point on the intricate, wiggly line, ...

Weird Math sets out to “reveal the strange connections between math and everyday life.” The book fulfills that laudable goal, in part. At times, teenage math prodigy Agnijo Banerjee and his tutor, ...

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A gallery of mathematical images from Visions of Numberland, the new colouring book by Edmund Harriss and me One of the great perks of my job - writing about maths – is that I am always learning new ...