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AI Could Smuggle Secret Messages in Memes

Dina Genkina

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How Warren Buffett Rigged a Dice Game with Bill Gates

Jack Murtagh | Opinion

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Life-Changing Cystic Fibrosis Treatment Wins $3-Million Breakthrough Prize

Zeeya Merali and Nature magazine

How Mathematical Objects Are like People and Other Mysteries of Intersection Theory

A Q&A with Hannah Larson, a recipient of the 2024 Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize

Rachel Crowell

Mathematics

AI Could Smuggle Secret Messages in Memes

Dina Genkina

Mathematics

How Warren Buffett Rigged a Dice Game with Bill Gates

Jack Murtagh | Opinion

Medicine

Life-Changing Cystic Fibrosis Treatment Wins $3-Million Breakthrough Prize

Zeeya Merali and Nature magazine

Mathematics

Mathematicians Think Saudi Arabia’s Ambitious ‘Line’ City Should Be a Circle

Manon Bischoff

Mathematics

Mathematician Solves 50-Year-Old Möbius Strip Puzzle

Rachel Crowell

Mathematics

Candy Crush Is Complicated—Even from a Mathematical Point of View

Manon Bischoff

Statistics

What This Graph of a Dinosaur Can Teach Us about Doing Better Science

Jack Murtagh | Opinion

Mathematics

Math’s ‘Hairy Ball Theorem’ Has Surprising Implications

Jack Murtagh | Opinion

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Mathematician Solves 50-Year-Old Möbius Strip Puzzle

A trapezoid was key to discovering the elusive answer to a riddle about Möbius strips

How Warren Buffett Rigged a Dice Game with Bill Gates

Weird math can explain why Warren Buffett had the advantage in a dice game against Bill Gates

Jack Murtagh | Opinion

What This Graph of a Dinosaur Can Teach Us about Doing Better Science

“Anscombe’s quartet” and the “datasaurus dozen” demonstrate the importance of visualizing data

Jack Murtagh | Opinion

Candy Crush Is Complicated—Even from a Mathematical Point of View

Don’t be annoyed if you fail at a certain level of the popular game Candy Crush Saga; computers also have their problems with it

Mathematicians Think Saudi Arabia’s Ambitious ‘Line’ City Should Be a Circle

Despite efforts to make a planned city in the Saudi Arabian desert sustainable, its layout could create problems

AI Could Smuggle Secret Messages in Memes

A new technique for sending hidden messages is mathematically proven to escape detection

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2016 Breakthrough Prize Winners

2016 Breakthrough Prize Winners

Six $3-million prizes awarded to advances in neutrino particle physics, topology, optogenetics and more

Videos

How to Calculate a Bigger Slice of Pi

For thousands of years people have struggled to pin down pi. Watch how mathematicians from Archimedes on have wrapped their heads around the math of circles.

March 14, 2017

The Sciences

The Math behind the Polls

November 29, 2016

The Sciences

Math Puts a New Twist on Solving a Rubik's Cube with the Fewest Moves

October 26, 2016

The Sciences

Solving the Rubik's Equation

October 24, 2016

The Sciences

Ants versus Plants: Networks Need Complexity for Resilience

March 30, 2016

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Cleo, the Mysterious Math Menace

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Cleo, the Mysterious Math Menace

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