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The Math Behind Wordle Guesses
Wordle is a word game. But you can use math to optimize your chances of winning (without cheating). In the simple game of Wordle, players have to guess a secret...
AI Reveals New Possibilities in Matrix Multiplication
Inspired by the results of a game-playing neural network, mathematicians have been making unexpected advances on an age-old math problem. Mathematicians love a good puzzle. Even something as abstract as...
A Mathematician Dancing Between Algebra and Geometry
...Like many people who would go on to become mathematicians, Wei Ho grew up competing in math contests. In eighth grade, she won the Mathcounts state competition in Wisconsin, and...
A Mathematician Who Fled to Freedom but Still Stares Down Doubts
...International Congress of Mathematicians around the same time as the Fields Medals, honors groundbreaking work in mathematical physics and related fields. [Editor’s note: The 2022 prize was funded by the...
Teenager Solves Stubborn Riddle About Prime Number Look-Alikes
...about a certain math problem. It had roots in a broader question, one that the mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss considered to be among the most important in mathematics: how to...
‘Monumental’ Math Proof Solves Triple Bubble Problem and More
...three volumes, the mathematician Frank Morgan of Williams College speculated in 2007, “could well take another hundred years.” Now, mathematicians have been spared that long wait — and have gotten...
How Big Is Infinity?
...this mysterious, complicated and important concept. Some of those children grow up to be mathematicians fascinated with infinity, and some of those mathematicians are discovering new and surprising things about...
The New Math of Wrinkling
...be seen as the solution to a geometric problem. “It is a beautiful piece of mathematical analysis,” said Stefan Müller of the University of Bonn’s Hausdorff Center for Mathematics in...
The Math Evangelist Who Preaches Problem-Solving
Richard Rusczyk, founder of Art of Problem Solving, has a vision for bringing “joyous, beautiful math” — and problem-solving — to classrooms everywhere. When Richard Rusczyk became interested in math...