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Most people wouldn't think that it would take rigorous mathematical proof to show how many folds it takes to make a donut shape out of paper. Yet, no one could…
June 1, 2026
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How ambitious should you be? Folk wisdom offers conflicting advice: "Shoot for the moon," but also, "Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good." A new study by…
May 29, 2026
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Last week, OpenAI shocked the mathematical community by revealing that one of its internal artificial intelligence (AI) models had found a counterexample to a famous conjecture made by legendary Hungarian…
May 28, 2026
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In today's scientific and industrial fields, high-dimensional data in which numerous variables are observed simultaneously, such as genomic, climate, financial, and sensor data, are rapidly increasing. In such data, it…
May 26, 2026
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The answers to today’s problems.Earlier today I set these four chess puzzles. Here they are again with solutions.1. Oddities Continue reading...
May 25, 2026
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Fear of maths | Calculation tip | Idea for Andy Burnham | Repair cafes | A wipeable wall chartRe Adrian Chiles on the nine times table (Struggling with the nine…
May 25, 2026
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In a new open-access study that I published with my late colleague Kostya Trachenko from Queen Mary University of London, I propose a surprisingly simple nonlinear mathematical equation that unifies…
May 25, 2026
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Check it outToday’s four puzzles are inspired by chess. (If you haven’t yet watched the recent documentaries on Judit Polgár and Hans Niemann, I recommend them.)1. Oddities Continue reading...
May 25, 2026
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Three mathematicians have laid out proof that solves a long-standing problem in mathematics. Even the mathematician—an Abel prize winner—that first posed the problem didn't believe it would ever be solved.…
May 24, 2026
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Apparently, nines are the hardest to grasp for primary school children. If only they’d learned how to cheat like meMaths was never my thing. I quite enjoyed it at O-level,…
May 21, 2026
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The answers to today’s pronunciation puzzlesEarlier today I set you these two word puzzles. Here they are again with solutions.1: Pronounced the same, spelt differently.(Second option) (Switch back and forth)(Suitable)…
May 11, 2026
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Pronunciation puzzlesUPDATE: Answers can be read hereA homonym is a word that has the same pronunciation as, or is spelt identical to, another word with a different meaning.For example, the…
May 11, 2026
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