Pulling off this get-rich scheme was perfectly legal, very cunning — and really not all that hard. A retired Michigan couple won $26 million playing the lottery by using “basic arithmetic.” It all ...

Buying back to school supplies is teaching parents a lesson in economics. While basic necessities are relatively inexpensive individually, the cost of an entire supply list a school suggests adds up ...

Though generations of schoolchildren have cursed arithmetic, the world was a much more inconvenient place without it. Before the advent of modern arithmetic in the 13th century, basic calculations ...

Richard Elwes reports on Harvey Friedman’s fascinating work on incompleteness in Boolean relation theory, but it is quite a stretch to extend his work to ask “are the rules of arithmetic… unsound?” ...