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In the early 1970s mathematician Donald Knuth spent a sabbatical with his wife in Norway. The time was meant to be spent relaxing. Yet one night he woke up his partner in a state of agitation. He ...

Kamala Harris again professes her love for Venn diagrams Vice President Kamala Harris explained again at the White House Thursday why she loves Venn diagrams.

Using high school algebra and geometry, and knowing just one rational point on a circle or elliptic curve, we can locate infinitely many others. You’re sitting at the end of a long conference table, ...

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Everyone loves unsolved mysteries. Examples include Amelia Earhart’s disappearance over the Pacific in 1937 and the daring escape of inmates Frank Morris and John and Clarence Anglin from Alcatraz ...

Trump will win second term, CNN projects, in historic comeback after losing four years ago Republicans will flip the Senate, CNN projects, shifting balance of power in Washington Republicans will ...

When Google and Apple announced last week that the two companies are building changes into Android and iOS to enable Bluetooth-based Covid-19 contact tracing, they touched off an immediate firestorm ...

R 0, pronounced “R naught” or “R zero,” is a mathematical term that indicates how contagious an infectious disease is. It’s also referred to as the reproduction number. R 0 of 1 means an infection in ...

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The following is an excerpt from Thinking in Numbers: On Life, Love, Meaning, and Math, by Daniel Tammet, out now from Little, Brown. Ask an Icelander what comes after three and he will answer, “Three ...