The saga of South Carolina’s Murdaugh family and their crimes—both actual and rumored—has provided fodder for scads of ...

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A new Class 9 mathematics textbook by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) calls the Sindhu-Sarasvati civilisation the first systematic use of grid-based thinking, says ...

For over 2,000 years, mathematicians believed a single line in Euclid’s work had to be wrong — until attempts to fix it led to something far stranger. By slightly changing that one statement, they ...

Louise Erdrich was getting help with her computer when her daughter discovered something on the hard drive. A short story. “‘Love of My Days’ was a forgotten file in my computer, and when I found it ...

In “The Great Math War,” Jason Socrates Bardi takes on a battle for the soul of numbers that divided the experts of its day. By Jordan Ellenberg Jordan Ellenberg, a professor of mathematics at the ...

It might have escaped lay people at the time, but for some observers the ascension of Leo XIV as head of the Catholic Church this year was a reminder that the last time a Pope Leo sat in St. Peter’s ...