Are you an expert cook who can churn out sauces and stews with the best of them, but gets defeated by sunken cakes and stiff doughs? Let’s be honest: It’s possible to be a passionate home chef who ...

According to mathematician Alex Bellos, most people are cutting their cakes incorrectly when they cut it in triangular pieces, like a pie-chart. But a better method for cutting cake has existed for ...

Ariel Procaccia has thought a lot about how to cut cake over the last 15 years. That’s partly because the Harvard computer scientist has three children who among them have celebrated more than two ...

Ever since math began to control the world -- shortly after Larry Page and Sergey Brin started their little concern -- I gave myself over to the new power. If math tells me that wearing red will make ...