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Considering I’ve been using it for decades, I suddenly found my ignorance alarming.

Mathematics is full of open problems that seem like they should be easy to answer, but end up being frustratingly hard to prove

How the brilliant cognitive scientist Roger Shepard turned the tables on us all

This excellent film also has some fun math to go with it!

With nothing more than high school algebra, you can build on the work of Newton and Euler!

One of the most iconic concepts in math is the number called Pi, but is it correct?

Bach was a musical master of mathematical manipulation

Set theory is often considered to be the foundational field of mathematics. It relies on a few very basic axioms and deals with structures…

A beautiful continued fraction ties together three pillars of mathematics

The Golomb ruler is a mysterious and elegant combinatorial object with many real-life applications

You may have heard of the three-body problem before. This famous physics puzzle has been around since at least the 1600s. The problem…

The math behind ensemble forecasts and how to use them!

Abraham Wald and the power of the mind’s eye

Paul Erdős is one of the most important and weirdest mathematicians of the 20th century

A deep dive into how one of the most important areas of mathematics started with a fun puzzle!

How do we study the boundary between structure and randomness?

Rubik’s cubes are ubiquitous in modern culture, but they can also lead to deep mathematical insights