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Finding Zen in the Art of Puzzle Solving
Readers used their Zen-like puzzle solving skills to discover hidden insights. The “eureka” or “aha” moment of insight is legendary in math and science, dating at least two millenniums back...
The Puzzling Power of Simple Arithmetic
...sort of thing that will get you hooked on mathematics. I daresay that if such examples of “guided discovery” were a regular part of math education at the lower and...
How Tadayuki Watanabe Disproved a Major Conjecture About Spheres
...symmetries. The Mystery Continues Watanabe’s result closed one front of mathematical research. It also opened another. After his work, mathematicians knew the Smale conjecture was false in all dimensions four...