You are no doubt familiar with π Day, the celebration of this mathematical constant on March 14th. But what about other constant holidays? Mike Vitevitch, a cognitive scientist at the University of ...

In the April Insights puzzle, I tried to guide readers down a path that might be best described as “experimental mathematics.” The goal was to rediscover two constants by iterating simple arithmetic ...

Mitchell J. Feigenbaum, a prize-winning physicist and mathematician who was one of the founders of chaos theory, which explores the kind of wildly turbulent, bewilderingly complex systems that defy ...