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Two twisty doughnut shapes solve a 150-year-old geometry puzzle
In 1867, French mathematician Pierre Ossian Bonnet proved something that seemed like common sense: if you know how far apart ...
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15 sneaky math puzzles hiding inside the Great Pyramid
The Great Pyramid of Giza is often treated as a monument of stone, but it also functions as a monument of numbers. I see at least fifteen tightly documented geometric and astronomical puzzles embedded ...
Math is not everyone’s favorite, understandably. Hours of math homework and difficult equations can make anyone sour on the subject. But when math problems are outside of a school setting, there’s no ...
An old riddle runs as follows. An explorer walks one mile due south, turns and walks one mile due east, turns again and walks one mile due north and winds up back at the starting point. Then the ...
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