I had never heard the term, “math circle,” until a few weeks ago when I stumbled across an article in The Atlantic about the growing number of American kids excelling in the highest levels of math. It ...
Evan O’Dorney leaps from his seat and snatches the chalk from his teacher’s hand. “I think it goes like this,” the eighth-grader exclaims. He has come up with a formula for the number of ways to ...
The LSU Math Circle competition team recently traveled to Boston to compete in the Harvard-MIT Mathematics Tournament. Held alternately at Harvard and MIT, the tournament consists of two 50-minute ...
Blaise Pascal independently rediscovered classical geometry at the age of 12 despite a ban on formal maths studies. His early ...