MATH

From savory chicken pot pie to the nutty pecan pie, find out which dishes people are interested in for Pi Day.

Before she helped send the first astronauts to the moon, Katherine Johnson was a human “computer” working behind the scenes at NASA.

The stats indicate that practice doesn’t always make perfect when it comes to mid-sized meteorological rodents.

Some of the world's greatest scientists have struggled with math—just like the rest of us.

Dunder Mifflin employees aren't the only people curious about whether that now-iconic DVD logo ever really does hit the corner of the screen.

The unusual fractional price you see at gas stations has roots in the Great Depression, but marketing is to blame, too.

Numbers are hard.

Fibonacci developed his theory based on rabbit population growth, but you'll find the golden ratio in everything from flowers to outer space.

You don't need a ton of algebra knowledge to solve this math problem from MIT's 1876 entrance exam, but it helps.

Plug a measurement into the Omni Calculator's Weird Units Converter and it will tell you what it is in Empire State Buildings, spaghetti strands, blue whales, and more.

If you grind your coffee beans too finely, you may not be getting the most out of the product, according to one study.

The modern chess set is named after Howard Staunton, a chess master who popularized its use. But his lasting contribution to sports might be in one that wasn’t even invented by the time he died in 1874.