For over a century, a simple yet tricky math problem had continued to baffle experts. Mathematicians struggled to find the fewest number of pieces needed to cut an equilateral triangle and rearrange ...

Puzzle game Yankai's Triangle was named Apple's App of the Week, making it free to download for the next seven days. This is the first time the game has been made available for free since it was ...

In each row n of the triangle, the integers from 1 to n are in alphabetical order. In the next row the number 8 would be added, and because “eight” comes before “five” in alphabetical order, it must ...

DeepMind has used a large language model (LLM) to generate a novel solution to one of humanity’s toughest math problems — in a breakthrough that could herald a new era in AI development. The model, ...

There is nothing quite like a tricky math puzzle to blow some of the cobwebs out of our heads. This one designed by Twitter user @panbtc manages to combine a simple setup, a tricky approach, and an ...

For over two millennia, mathematicians agreed on one thing: you can’t use trigonometry to prove Pythagoras’ Theorem—because ...

The number in each polygon with n sides is the sum of the first n prime numbers’ values. The following applies to the decagon: We’d love to hear from you! E-mail us at games@sciam.com to share your ...

"You are cordially invited to match wits with some of the best minds in IBM Research." This month, Valley Catholic AP computer teacher Jerry Kearns did just that. His name appears on a list of ...

Author Ed Southall of Solve My Maths shared a math problem on Twitter asking people to figure out what fraction of a square is shaded pink. Twitter users struggled to figure it out, but some got it ...