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Hands Playing Solitaire Card Game

Technology

We finally know the odds of winning a game of solitaire

What are the chances of winning a game of solitaire? It was once called an “embarrassment” of mathematics that we didn't know, but a computer has now found the answer

News

The Tenth Muse review: A story in which the women count

Humans

The Tenth Muse review: A story in which the women count

Culture

Manual Override exhibition

Physics

Don’t miss: Art meets science, atoms find love and numbers grow curves

Culture

Exoplanets

Physics

AI could solve baffling three-body problem that stumped Isaac Newton

News

Eugenia Cheng

Physics

Mathematician Eugenia Cheng on the abstract wonder of category theory

Regulars

Bees in a honeycomb

Life

Bees are better at counting if they are penalised for their mistakes

News

The number 3

Mathematics

Mathematicians find a completely new way to write the number 3

News

Lottery tickets

Physics

50-year old maths problem about an infinite lottery finally solved

News

Colouring book pattern

Physics

Baffling maths riddle that looks like a pile of worms almost solved

News

Sunloungers with number 42 on them

Mathematics

Mathematicians crack elusive puzzle involving the number 42

Can we write any number as the sum of three cubes? It’s a puzzle that has perplexed mathematicians for centuries. Now we have finally have an answer for 42

News

Scientists win millions in the 2020 Breakthrough Prize

News

Physics

Inside the race to find the first billion-digit prime number

Features

Physics

Computer attempts to replicate the dream-like maths of Ramanujan

News

Definition

Probability

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