At Battle High School in Columbia, Mo., students in geometry class have swapped their compasses and protractors for hammers and hard hats. And they’re doing it for a good cause. The school is one of a ...

Those of you whose math careers peaked in geometry—with reliable theorems offered a degree of predictability in an otherwise uncertain teenage world—might find a new show of strangely animate and hard ...

In the third century BCE, Apollonius of Perga asked how many circles one could draw that would touch three given circles at exactly one point each. It would take 1,800 years to prove the answer: eight ...