Mathematics

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

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

A new interpretation of Isaac Newton’s writings clarifies what the father of classical mechanics meant in his first law of motion

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

Here’s what the hairiest problem in math can teach us about wind, antennas and nuclear fusion

Huge data sets and matrices help online companies predict what you will click next

Researchers have found the ninth “Dedekind number” after a 32-year-long search

The martingale betting strategy has led many gamblers to ruin when the Kelly criterion could have brought them riches

The letter X is key to modern algebra. But no one knows why

More training and more data can have unintended consequences for machine-learning models such as GPT-4

The founder of a Japanese media company has offered a large cash prize to anyone who can find a flaw in an unusual proof 

The twisty history and surprise ending of the four-color-theorem saga