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Technology

AI solves 100-hat puzzle used in Google job interviews

A neural network that has solved a notoriously tricky riddle could allow groups of robots to collaborate on real-world problems

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Humans

The End of Average tells us why we should discard a mean idea

CultureLab

Prime number with 22 million digits is the biggest ever found

Prime number with 22 million digits is the biggest ever found

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Mathematicians invent new way to slice pizza into exotic shapes

Mathematics

Mathematicians invent new way to slice pizza into exotic shapes

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Painting by numbers with the design book <em>Mathematics and Art</em>

Physics

Painting by numbers with the design book Mathematics and Art

CultureLab

How to win at game theory

Humans

How to win at game theory

Features

How to get rich with maths

Humans

How to get rich with maths

Features

Feedback: a calling card for water fruitloopery

Feedback: a calling card for water fruitloopery

Regulars

Probability is as useful to physics as flat-Earth theory

Physics

Probability is as useful to physics as flat-Earth theory

Opinion

Crowds beat computers in answer to Wikipedia-sized maths problem

Mathematics

Crowds beat computers in answer to Wikipedia-sized maths problem

A maths puzzle that hit the headlines last year for generating a proof the size of Wikipedia has now been solved in just a few pages by a human

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Life

Your brain wrinkles like a screwed-up ball of paper

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Life

The greatest physics theorem you've never heard of

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Physics

A Beautiful Mind mathematician wins Abel prize

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Physics

Mathematician's anger over his unread 500-page proof

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