What is the largest amount of money that cannot be obtained by collecting coins of a certain value?
The great mathematician and encyclopedist questioned conventional probability theory.
In no field of mathematics are paradoxes as frequent and disconcerting as in the calculation of probabilities.
In the rigorous domain of mathematics, the exception does not confirm the rule, but rather invalidates it.
Timbiriche or 'pipopipette' is a pencil and paper game created by the great French mathematician Édouard Lucas
Piet Mondrian's abstract compositions lend themselves to interesting mathematical considerations.
In relation to the problem of the fly and the bicycles, there is an amusing anecdote attributed to the great mathematician John Von Neumann
The concept of the cinematic MacGuffin, introduced by Alfred Hitchcock, is applicable to some problems of logic and mathematics.
The French mathematician Eugène Ehrhart generalized the work of Pick and Reeve to n-dimensional polytopes.
Reeve's tetrahedron and Winkler's snake: two simple mathematical objects with interesting implications