If you’ve ever heard the phrase “the music of the spheres,” your first thought probably wasn’t about mathematics. But in its historical origin, the music of the spheres actually was all about math. In ...

Bill Whitaker is an award-winning journalist and 60 Minutes correspondent who has covered major news stories, domestically and across the globe, for more than four decades with CBS News. A high school ...

Many people think that mathematics is a human invention. To this way of thinking, mathematics is like a language: it may describe real things in the world, but it doesn’t “exist” outside the minds of ...

For centuries, the Pythagorean Theorem has occupied a unique position in mathematics: both elementary and profound. Its equation, a² + b² = c², is taught early and used widely, yet its implications ...

Two high school students proved the Pythagorean theorem in a way that one early 20th-century mathematician thought would be impossible: by using trigonometry. Calcea Johnson and Ne’Kiya Jackson, both ...

Chances are that if you attended school between the ages of 12 and 15 you learned the Pythagorean Theorem. Even if you happily left geometry in the rearview mirror decades ago you can probably still ...

Greek philosopher Pythagoras played a crucial role in the birth of mathematics as we know it. He is probably most famous for the Pythagorean Theorem, which says the square of the hypotenuse (the ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. OK, so I've been learning about Pythagoras, and the dirt on him is just too good. You've probably heard ...

Sam Baron receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Many people think that mathematics is a human invention. To this way of thinking, mathematics is like a language: it may describe real ...