To come up with a result as weird as this, you need to be using some equally mind-bending math – and indeed, this paradox comes to us from the world of set theoretic geometry. If that’s not familiar ...

If you’ve ever shuffled a deck of playing cards, you’ve most likely created a unique deck. Although this claim sounds ...

Time travel has been the staple science fiction books and movies for many years. Most who have read or watched content focusing on time travel knows about the paradox issue. Perhaps the best example ...

The 1982 SAT infamously held a math question so tricky that even its creators didn’t include a correct answer. The botch required the rescoring of 300,000 exams, scholastic victims of the knotty coin ...

Have you played the puzzle game Tangram? I remember, as a child, being fascinated by how just seven simple wooden triangles and other shapes could offer endless entertainment. Unlike LEGO, the Tangram ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Johannes holds an MSci in ...

The paradox is that most traders intellectually understand exponential returns but emotionally miss them. They sell too early ...