October 10, 2023 • 10m
The Monty Hall paradox, named after a game show from the 60s, concerns the way in which information acquired during the course of ...Read more
October 10, 2023 • 10m
Statistics seem, almost by their very nature, to convey a positivist message. They are, in fact, a formidable tool in the attempt ...Read more
October 10, 2023 • 10m
For centuries, geometry was based on Euclid's postulates, which seemed eternal and irrevocable. However, one of the postulates (t...Read more
October 10, 2023 • 10m
A tessellation is a way of covering a plane with a repeating pattern... Basically, it's like creating wallpaper. In 1975, Marjori...Read more
October 10, 2023 • 10m
The question is how to make a network that is both "economical" and "robust" without taking up too much space. This is a theoreti...Read more
October 10, 2023 • 10m
To begin with, there are the five "Platonic solids" beloved of geometers: the cube, the tetrahedron, the octahedron, the dodecahed...Read more
October 10, 2023 • 10m
When mathematics tells us the best way to stack oranges... Formulated in 1611, Kepler's conjecture was finally proved by Thomas H...Read more
October 10, 2023 • 10m
Can the flap of a butterfly's wings in Brazil trigger a tornado in Texas? Behind Edward Lorenz's all-too-famous question lies a m...Read more
October 10, 2023 • 10m
How do you model the movement of a potato in space? Many a mathematician has struggled with this question. At the end of the 19th...Read more
October 10, 2023 • 10m
Imagine a world where a machine could calculate true and false... Failing that, Church, Herbrand, Gödel and Turing each tried in ...Read more