That’s exactly what happened in 1900 at the International Congress of Mathematicians at Sorbonne University in Paris.

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AI startup Exa recently took an IRL approach to recruiting, posting math problems all over San Francisco with a free dinner ...

To minimize the space it moves through, you’ll need an infinitely narrow needle—and creative math. This puzzle led to the Kakeya conjecture: It states that the number of dimensions of the traced shape ...

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David Genter earned both bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Michigan Technological University in mechanical engineering. He ...

A seemingly easy math puzzle making the rounds on the internet may not be all that it seems as the simple solution requires somewhat complex thinking. The brain-teaser, which has gone viral on X ...

Smith has two children. At least one of them is a boy. What is the probability that the other child is a boy? Jones has two children. The older one is a girl. What is the probability that the ...

Play this puzzle to see how far the machines have to go. By Dylan Freedman and Cade Metz Produced by Juliana Castro Varón and Umi Syam In 2019, an A.I. researcher, François Chollet, designed a ...

This is why maths-based brain teasers remain popular—they provide a fun yet challenging way to stimulate the brain. While the exact logic behind the viral puzzle may not be immediately obvious ...

Clarification: This story has been updated to clarify how University of Colorado researchers handle their data collection. A student digs into a math problem that references his favorite superhero ...