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White Mountains Regional High School in Whitefield is surrounded by woods, and snow capped Mount Washington looms not far away. A little ways from the…
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Here’s a philosophical question for you: was math invented or was it discovered?Granite Geek David Brooks has been thinking about this question, and will…
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Why is six scared of seven? Because seven, eight, nine. Jokes like this are only one example of the ways that we humans like to assign personality traits…
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The town of Peterborough has quietly become the administrative headquarters of the Clay Mathematics Institute, the nonprofit organization that’s seeking…
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Cryptography is a complex field of mathematics that gets more complicated every day, and yet movies that feature ciphers, code breaking and puzzles that…
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M.C. Escher has been all over Manchester lately (or, at least, his work has been). The Currier Museum of Art has been featuring Escher in an exhibit that…
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UNH Math Professor Receives 2014 MacArthur 'Genius' Award After Prime Number DiscoveryHe says he may just give the $625,000 award to his wife. Yitang Zhang, a professor of analytic number theory at the University of New Hampshire, is one of…
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Over the past 25 years, the percentage of people with no religious affiliation has more than doubled, at the same time, the internet has been widely…
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If it seems like, these days, everyone is talking about STEM - that now common acronym for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math programs - it's…
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We’ve all heard it all before: Lightning never strikes twice in the same place. That was a one in a million shot! It’s a miracle! But is there any truth…