Between each pair of terms in this sequence is the amount the sequence is decreasing by. The 𝒏th term refers to a term's position in the sequence, for example, the first term has 𝒏 = 1, the second ...

A variation of a puzzle called the “pick-up sticks problem” asks the following question: If I have some number of sticks with random lengths between 0 and 1, what are the chances that no three of ...

Christophe Golé is Professor of Mathematical Sciences at Smith College and co-author of ‘Do Plants Know Math?’ Speaking to Srijana Mitra Das at Times Evoke , he discusses plants — and their number ...