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Solution: ‘The Problem With Dancing Shapes’

February 24, 2016

Assigning elements from a large collection to one of two categories can yield almost “magical” predictions about highly complicated problems without actually solving them.

The Problem With Dancing Shapes

February 9, 2016

In a geometrically designed social club, how do dancing, triangles and hexagons mix?

Solution: ‘Sleeping Beauty’s Dilemma’

January 29, 2016

The solution to this month’s puzzle gets to the bottom of the famously ambiguous Sleeping Beauty probability problem.

Sleeping Beauty’s Necker Cube Dilemma

January 14, 2016

Like a visually ambiguous Necker cube, the famous Sleeping Beauty problem can be perceived in two seemingly valid ways.

Solution: ‘The Fabulously Fair Feast’

December 22, 2015

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.

The Fabulously Fair Feast

December 10, 2015

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

Solution: ‘Be Still My Pulsating Sequence’

November 25, 2015

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.

Be Still My Pulsating Sequence

November 12, 2015

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

Solution: ‘Creating Art With Mathematics’

October 30, 2015

The solution to this month’s puzzle explains the artful mathematics behind symmetrical patterns.

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