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Each queen plotted to conquer all four islands for herself, and war would certainly have begun, if not for the timely intervention of the four queens’ wise and peacemaking daughters. The clever ...

Math is not everyone’s favorite, understandably. Hours of math homework and difficult equations can make anyone sour on the subject. But when math problems are outside of a school setting, there’s no ...

Math has long been a bane to American students. One way to counteract the difficulty is to discover the subject’s playful side. In this excerpt, a math professor reflects on recreational math and the ...

The following is adapted from the introduction to “The Riddler: Fantastic Puzzles from FiveThirtyEight,” published by W. W. Norton & Co. It is in stores today! The world’s oldest collection of math ...

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Cambridge scientists test ChatGPT with 2,000-year-old maths puzzle, and discover how it ‘thinks’ - AI chatbot’s thought ...