Novelist Celeste Ng has shared a head-scratching system of equations that her 9-year-old son apparently made up over dinner: She’s right-using simultaneous equations does get really complicated, and ...

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In September 2019, news broke regarding progress on this 82-year-old question, thanks to prolific mathematician Terence Tao. And while the story of Tao’s breakthrough is promising, the problem isn’t ...

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There weren’t calculators or computers in medieval Europe. But there were math duels. Mathematicians would gather in public squares and pose tricky math problems to each other. Then they raced to ...