Generally, people have a good feeling for how much cake is in half a cake. But do you know exactly how much most of a cake is? Researchers have conducted experiments to find out how much of a cake ‘most’ is. ‘Most’ doesn’t have an exact definition like ‘half’ does. Dictionaries often define ‘most’ to [...]

More and more forms of life are becoming extinct, as people destroy habitats, hunt animals and introduce pests. Individual extinctions are often just the start of the problems facing an ecosystem under threat. The elimination of one species can cause disturbances in an ecosystem that could lead to further species being wiped out. Now, mathematicians [...]

Get a piece of chewing gum, chew it for a bit and then take it out of your mouth and stretch it. As it gets longer, the gum will get thinner and thinner. This happens with all kinds of materials from rubber to steel. But not all materials get thinner when you stretch them. There [...]

This is a geomagic square. If you take the shapes in any row, column or main diagonal, you can rearrange them to make a rectangle that is 3 squares tall and five squares wide. Over 2500 years ago, Chinese mathematicians discovered a grid of numbers with special properties that we now call a magic square. [...]

The top universities for the study of mathematics vary greatly in rankings depending on which organization is doing the grading. The rankings also differ between United States rankings, and worldwide rankings. This will cover both of those sets of ratings, with the United States rankings first. The number one university for the study of mathematics [...]