Mathematicians discover impossible problem in Super Mario games
Some problems are harder than othersIGDB/Nintendo Figuring out whether certain levels in the Super Mario…
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Prime Number Puzzle Has Stumped Mathematicians for More Than a Century
While I was looking for a gift for a child’s birthday, a math book fell…
Mathematicians Explain Why Some Lengths Can’t Be Measured
In the past few years, I’ve moved more than once. Time and again, I have…
Mathematicians have finally proved that Bach was a great composer
Johann Sebastian Bach was a great composer – according to information theoryThe Granger Collection /…
Mathematicians found a guaranteed way to win the lottery in 2023
David Cushing and David Stewart calculate a winning solution Earlier this year, two mathematicians revealed…
Inside Mathematicians’ Search for the Mysterious ‘Einstein Tile’
In November 2022 a colleague of mine casually asked what I was working on. My…
AI is helping mathematicians build a periodic table of shapes
The bands of colour represent shapes of a certain dimension and formCoates, T., Kasprzyk, A.M.…
Mathematicians Think Saudi Arabia’s Ambitious ‘Line’ City Should Be a Circle
In October 2022 construction work began on a megaproject called “the Line,” a 106-mile-long city…
Mathematicians Solve 50-Year-Old Möbius Strip Puzzle
Möbius strips are curious mathematical objects. To construct one of these single-sided surfaces, take a…
Mathematicians find 12,000 solutions for fiendish three-body problem
The motion of three objects is more complex than you might thinkMark Wragg/Getty Images The…