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Five ways ancient India changed the world – with maths

It should come as no surprise that the first recorded use of the number zero, recently discovered to ...
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How statistical thinking should shape the courtroom

The probabilistic revolution first kicked off in the 1600s, when gamblers realized that estimating t ...
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Thinking about How and Why We Prove

Credit: Evelyn Lamb Stacking oranges leads to computer-assisted mathematics. But does it feel like m ...
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There’s a mathematical formula for choosing the fastest queue

It seems obvious. You arrive at the checkouts and see one queue is much longer than the other, so yo ...
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Why do we need to know about prime numbers with ...

SeventyFour via Shutterstock Prime numbers are more than just numbers that can only be divided by th ...
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The Unforgiving Math That Stops Epidemics

Credit: Peter Dazeley Getty Images Not getting a flu shot could endanger more than just one’s own he ...
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How to avoid a sucker bet – with a little ...

Sitting in a bar, you start chatting to a man who issues you a challenge. He hands you five red and ...
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The Mathematics of Cake Cutting

Credit: OLENA SHMAHALO Quanta Magazine Computer scientists have come up with an algorithm that can f ...
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A newly discovered prime number makes its debut

The distribution of prime numbers from 1 to 76,800, from left to right and top to bottom. A black pi ...
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The Mathematics of (Hacking) Passwords

Credit: Gaetan Charbonneau Getty Images The science and art of password setting and cracking continu ...
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Mathematics: forget simplicity, the abstract is beautiful – and important

Shutterstock Why is mathematics so complicated? It’s a question many students will ask while grappli ...
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The Ditherer’s Mean

Credit: Roy Scott/Getty Images How to calculate an average if you’re indecisive So you’ve got some n ...
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The math behind the perfect free throw

Some 20 years ago, my colleague Dr. Chau Tran and I developed a way to simulate the trajectories of ...
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“The Danger of a Single Story” in Mathematics

Credit: George Coppock Getty Images The Lathisms podcast shares the varied stories of Hispanic and L ...
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How To Prepare For International Maths Olympiad?

The IMOC stands for International Mathematical Olympiad Challenge and is a well-renowned world champ ...
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The genius at Guinness and his statistical legacy

This St Patrick’s Day, revellers around the world will crowd the streets seeking one of Ireland’s na ...
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