You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. My daughter came home the other day with words that made my Math Geek heart leap for joy. She told me ...

You may have heard of the concept of “six degrees of separation”. Made popular by a movie and a parlor game, it says that everyone in the world can be connected by at most six degrees of separation.

Starting today, for seven hours a day, during the next six weeks, girls from Orange County high schools will embrace their inner math geek. They're taking part in the Mathematics Intensive Summer ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American The other day Patrick Vennebush of the blog ...