This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American On this very special Valentine’s Day episode ...

But sometimes I have to cut a sandwich or pizza in half. If the other person is equally hungry, they'll be scrupulous about the division being fair. Still there are tricky cases. What happens, for ...

For those unaware of this neat little mathematical curiosity, the "wobbly table theorem" is kind of an application of the broader intermediate value theorem, a corollary of which basically says that ...