This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Every year around this time I think of the ...

The decimal digits of the mathematical constant pi, 3.14159265. . ., ring out an intricate melody that sounds vaguely medieval. Those of the constant e, 2.718281828. . ., progress at a relentless, ...

Cellular automata are a set of rules followed to form different patterns. (i.e. The Chaos Game) There is no one fixed set of rules to form all patterns, there can be infinitely many. The evolution of ...

If someone asks me before this project, "What is a Pascal's Triangle?" I would have quickly answered that it is an arithmetic triangle composed of the coefficients of the polynomial (1+x) n, just like ...