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There’s Something Mathematically Unique About the One World Trade Center
The beautiful One World Trade Center stands as a New York icon—but there appears to be more to…
“Computer Space” launched the video game industry — then fell into a black hole
Computer Space was innovative, but how was it to play? Ed Fries, CC BY-ND Noah Wardrip-Fruin, University of…
How Do You Find the Average of Everything?
Finding the “average” of a set of numbers is easy enough to some people, but how do you…
How Did We Get Around to Solving for X?
We always seem to supplant the unknown with the letter “X,” but its history stretches far beyond its…
Here’s a Video About Knots. (No, Really!)
You might be surprised to know that studying knots go beyond just getting your shoelaces tied just right;…
Why Bother With Mathematicians When We Have AI?
AI’s slow but steady encroachment into everyday life has covered almost every niche it can touch—including math. What…
Prime Numbers and the Riemann Hypothesis
Imagine you have a line with all the positive whole numbers on it. Can mathematics reveal any patterns…
The Four-Color Theorem
The Four-Color Theorem is an intriguing mathematical puzzle rooted in graph theory and map coloring. This timeless problem…
Putting Pentagons Together
How many ways are there to put together some regular pentagons? The answers may be as puzzling as…
A Curiosity About… Spools?
There’s some interesting math to be seen in the action of unreeling a spool—just make sure to unspool…