An introduction to information entropy That’s Mansour!We’re not just a math business; we’re a math technology business. So on top of having  an awesome team of mathematicians, we also have an incredible group of  engineers working here. Mansour is our Lead Infrastructure Engineer.  That basically means

and other intriguing insights into the world of tennis scores Last  Monday morning at Mathspace HQ we started the day with an impassioned  debate. It was about the first Grand Slam for 2018 — the Australian  Open. What  initially started as a chat about the Kyrgios/Dimitrov duel that had  unfolded

The Coffee + Math Series This is Adam.We’ve squeezed in one final Coffee + Math catch up for 2017! This week we defied the sweltering Summer heat and had a hot chocolate with Adam Humphreys in Sydney, Australia. Before  joining Mathspace, Adam was entrenched in the world of academia,  devoting

The Coffee + Math Series That’s Andie.Welcome to our Coffee + Math series. This  week we had an iced coffee with Andie Hoyt in St. Louis, Missouri.  Before finding her home at Mathspace, Andie was a high school Math  teacher. Now she helps to run our US School Success team

The Coffee + Math Series That’s JackThis is our second instalment of the Coffee + Math series. It’s  simple - we have a coffee and chat about our favorite math equations,  math facts and math tidbits. What more could you want? This  week we had (an almond milk) coffee with Jack

Here’s a fun (and delicious!) set of puzzles for you to try, inspired by “The Moscow Puzzles.” You’ll need a big bag of pretzel sticks (or other items of equal size, like matchsticks or straws). Puzzle 1: First, arrange 12 pretzels like this: How many squares can you

If you don’t like wasting gift wrapping paper (and we sure don’t), then this is the perfect post for you! Recently we asked if it’s possible to achieve mathematical perfection when wrapping gifts. Let’s start by considering how most of us would wrap a gift that’

Christmas  is a time of giving… presents! And one of the most important parts of  gift-giving is the wrapping paper — how it looks under the Christmas  tree is as much a gift as the present inside. Many people devote a lot  of time to making their presents look perfect,