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Math is not everyone’s favorite, understandably. Hours of math homework and difficult equations can make anyone sour on the subject. But when math problems are outside of a school setting, there’s no ...

Math has long been a bane to American students. One way to counteract the difficulty is to discover the subject’s playful side. In this excerpt, a math professor reflects on recreational math and the ...

The following is adapted from the introduction to “The Riddler: Fantastic Puzzles from FiveThirtyEight,” published by W. W. Norton & Co. It is in stores today! The world’s oldest collection of math ...

Can you think like the Father of Mathematics? This impossible-looking flower equation challenge will push your logic and math ...

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Tristan and Layla subdue the Great Pumpkin, greater Ozark is saved from the big squash. The post Math Puzzle for October 31, ...

In our recent puzzle “ The Wanderer’s Return ,” I wrote an intuition-based solution to avoid hairy algebraic calculations.

In a remarkable development, a human mathematician has achieved what many thought impossible: solving the centuries-old ...