I’m sure you have seen this idea: someone creates a graphic involving three circles in staggered overlap. Where two of the circles overlap, something occurs. (There are three possibilities for two of ...

In his book The Mathematical Universe, mathematician William Dunham wrote of John Venn’s namesake legacy, the Venn diagram, “No one in the long history of mathematics ever became better known for less ...

A buddy of mine had an interview and was asked some horrible interview question. He asked me about it afterward, but I wasn't any help. This has been bugging me all ...

Circle packing encapsulates the challenge of optimally arranging a set of circles within a given container without overlap, a process that has profound implications in both theoretical mathematics and ...