Mathematics
Did you solve it? Rotation, rotation, rotation
The answers to today’s mind-spinners
Alex Bellos
29, May, 2023 @4:00 PM
Can you solve it? Rotation, rotation, rotation
Puzzles to put you in a spin
Alex Bellos
29, May, 2023 @6:10 AM
Did you solve it? Succession
The answers to today’s puzzles
Alex Bellos
15, May, 2023 @4:00 PM
Can you solve it? Succession
Pondering what comes next
Alex Bellos
15, May, 2023 @6:12 AM
Did you solve it? Chicken or egg
The answers to today’s puzzles
Alex Bellos
01, May, 2023 @4:00 PM
Can you solve it? Chicken or egg
Brain games from a master puzzler
Alex Bellos
01, May, 2023 @6:10 AM
Once Upon a Prime review – why maths and literature make a winning formula
Prof Sarah Hart’s exuberant study of the enduring conversation between mathematics and literature is fascinating
Rohan Silva
25, Apr, 2023 @8:00 AM
That most pressing of UK’s problems for Sunak to solve … maths
PM’s sums do not seem to add up with his latest passion to deal with the nation’s chronic innumeracy
John Crace
17, Apr, 2023 @6:08 PM
Did ‘u’ solve it? Wordplay meets numberplay
The answers to today’s lexical perplexities
Alex Bellos
17, Apr, 2023 @4:05 PM
Hannah Fry: ‘Mum wasn’t focused on cooking. She’d boil sardines’
Over a cheeky Nando’s, the maths professor and TV presenter talks about dating, why she won’t eat anything that’s lived in water, and life after serious illness
Rebecca Nicholson
17, Apr, 2023 @12:00 PM
Can ‘u’ solve it? Wordplay meets numberplay
Mathematical rules for writing
Alex Bellos
17, Apr, 2023 @6:10 AM
‘The miracle that disrupts order’: mathematicians invent new ‘einstein’ shape
Called ‘the hat’, the 13-sided shape can be arranged in a tile formation such that it never forms a repeating grid
Matthew Cantor
04, Apr, 2023 @5:00 AM
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