Is there an infinity of infinities? The question sounds almost absurd, like a child’s riddle meant to twist your brain into ...

The following is an excerpt from Beyond Infinity: An Expedition to the Outer Limits of Mathematics, by Eugenia Cheng Mathematics can be thought of as many things: a language, a tool, a game. It might ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

This is an installment of Reading Reddit, a Slate pop-up blog about Reddit. In the beginning, there was 1. Then, there was 2. Soon after that, there was 3, and 4, and ...

Watching the football game. Ever notice the score that is flashed on the bottom of the television screen? It has the score, the time left in the game, the quarter, information on the down and the ...