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 ...

You’ve been cutting your cakes wrong, says Math. Here’s a better, more mathematically accurate method for slicing up a cake. In this video from Numberphile, Alex Bellos digs up a more than ...

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 ...