You only need a cursory familiarity with the work of magicians like Derren Brown and David Blaine to realise that at the heart of many illusions lies a piece of rock-solid mathematics. Sometimes ...

YouTuber Kevin Lieber (who hosts the popular Vsauce2 series) has brought a classic math magic trick back from its ‘90s heyday. In the video, Lieber walks viewers through a magic trick where they ...

Imagine you're a trader. You're on the trading floor, trying to price out if a 15-year bond issued by General Electric will generate the returns needed to placate your investors. Bad news, your ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Everyone gets really wow'd when someone pulls off some exceptional mental math. The best part is, you can totally be that guy at the party with a ...

You probably haven’t had to do longhand math in years, but you do mental math every day. Or maybe you google math problems ten times a day, because you’ve forgotten how to do any math beyond your ...

If math never quite stuck for you, Ben Orlin is here to change that. Orlin is a math teacher and author of a new book, Math for English Majors. His mission is to help people see math in a more ...

No, it's not some modern sorcery — just a fun math "trick" that can figure out your age and your shoe size in six simple steps. We apologize, this video has expired. A fun little bit of arithmetic ...