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A bit of information theory can help you analyze — and improve — your Wordle game.
Play this simple math game with your friends to gain insights into fundamental principles of graph theory.
The triangle angle sum theorem makes working with triangles easy. What happens when you can’t rely on it?
The Chinese remainder theorem is an ancient and powerful extension of the simple math of least common multiples.
Solutions to the simplest polynomial equations — called “roots of unity” — have an elegant structure that mathematicians still use to study some of math’s greatest open questions.
Using high school algebra and geometry, and knowing just one rational point on a circle or elliptic curve, we can locate infinitely many others.
Math teachers have stymied students for hundreds of years by sticking goats in strangely shaped fields. Learn why one grazing goat problem has stumped mathematicians for more than a century.
Enter the world of perfect numbers and explore the mystery mathematicians have spent thousands of years trying to solve.
Imagine if we lived on a cube-shaped Earth. How would you find the shortest path around the world?