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How to Brew the Perfect Cup of Coffee, According to Science

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Statistics Are Being Abused, but Mathematicians Are Fighting Back

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How Squishy Math Is Revealing Doughnuts in the Brain

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Can God Be Proved Mathematically?

Some mathematicians have sought a logical proof for the existence of God. Here’s what they discovered

Manon Bischoff

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How to Brew the Perfect Cup of Coffee, According to Science

Jamie Foster, Christopher H. Hendon and The Conversation US

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Statistics Are Being Abused, but Mathematicians Are Fighting Back

Manon Bischoff

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How Squishy Math Is Revealing Doughnuts in the Brain

Kelsey Houston-Edwards

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The Elusive Origin of Zero

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How Florence Nightingale Changed Data Visualization Forever

RJ Andrews

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Should Machines Replace Mathematicians?

John Horgan | Opinion

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Ukrainian Mathematician Becomes Second Woman to Win Prestigious Fields Medal

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Statistics Are Being Abused, but Mathematicians Are Fighting Back

An expert explains how numbers can mislead and what she’s doing to help people understand them better

Can God Be Proved Mathematically?

Some mathematicians have sought a logical proof for the existence of God. Here’s what they discovered

Should Machines Replace Mathematicians?

A “replication crisis” in mathematics raises questions about the purpose of knowledge

John Horgan | Opinion

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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.

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