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Explore our surprisingly simple, absurdly ambitious and necessarily incomplete guide to the boundless mathematical universe.

The solution to this month’s puzzle explains how to design a Sudoku square to figure out the likes and dislikes of four or eight finicky friends.

For this month’s puzzle, design a Sudoku square to figure out the likes and dislikes of four finicky friends.

The solution to this month’s puzzle explains how to find a rule behind a given sequence of numbers and challenges readers to take on a ‘lovely’ unsolved problem.

Can you infer the simple rule behind a number sequence that spikes up and down like the beating of a heart?