Imagine 100 dots scattered in front of you. In a haphazard variation on connect-the-dots, start drawing lines between the points. How many lines can you draw without producing a triangle? A square? An ...

Jacob Holm was flipping through proofs from an October 2019 research paper he and colleague Eva Rotenberg—an associate professor in the department of applied mathematics and computer science at the ...

Sudoku has exploded in popularity over the past few years. It now runs in many newspapers on a daily basis, and sudoku puzzle collections can be found in bookstores everywhere. In the June/July issue ...

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When you get stuck on a fiendishly difficult sudoku, it’s hard not to wonder if the puzzle really has a solution. At another moment, aglow in the triumph of a clever deduction, you might have a ...

When drawing mathematical formulas correctly on documents and websites, it is necessary to use formulas specialized in formulasLaTeXMust be used. However, if the formula is long and complicated, ...

Now that pandemic restrictions are easing up, people are getting together again. But it’s been a while, so if you and your friends need some help breaking the ice, here’s a mathematical party game you ...