mathematics
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The New York Times Presents: Wordle But It’s Maths
The New York Times has a new web game out this week, Digits, and depending on how well you did in high school algebra, may or may not be your new favourite thing.
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How Breaking the Rules of Maths Will Give Us an Edge Over AI
It is our human nature to tinker with rules, as anyone who has argued over dubious interpretations of the game Monopoly will attest. Rule-breaking may hold the key to giving us an edge over machines that, for all their emerging capabilities, are tied to fixed directives. A close look at how mathematics comes to be…
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Google Celebrates Pi Day With a Cute Calculator Easter Egg
Happy Pi Day, fellow nerds! The yearly celebration of the mathematical constant π or pi, aka the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter (and here I thought I’d never get a chance to use 9th-grade geometry in real life!). It falls on March 14 because pi written out numerically is 3.14… and then…
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Is Mathematics Real? A Viral TikTok Video Raises a Legitimate Question with Exciting Answers
While filming herself getting ready for work recently, TikTok user @gracie.ham reached deep into the ancient foundations of mathematics and found an absolute gem of a question: How could someone come up with a concept like algebra? She also asked what the ancient Greek philosopher Pythagoras might have used mathematics for, and other questions that…