Color-by-numbers apps are really popular on the App Store right now, with four different apps rising to the top of the free apps chart. The apps have a combined 3.2 million downloads over the past ...

A detail of the Mandelbrot set, a fractal named after Benoit Mandelbrot, the French mathematician who investigated it in the 1970s. If you were to zoom in at any ...

A year after he started his Ph.D. in mathematics at McGill University, Matt Bowen had a problem. “I took my qualifying exams and did absolutely horribly on them,” he said. Bowen was sure that his ...