Try this ancient multiplication trick—halves and doubles, also called Egyptian or Russian math—where you repeatedly halve one ...

(via Numberphile) This video features Swagat Saurav Mishr discussing the research of Professor P.P.Divakaran, and the very early history of calculus in India.

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They baffle, delight, and frustrate millions of people around the world on a daily basis. But even the most dedicated Sudoku-solver might have never spotted this secret pattern. Mathematicians have ...

On one level, sudoku is a simple and fun way to pass the time and keep the brain ticking – but dig deeper, and some fiendishly clever math patterns reveal themselves. The most recent to blow our minds ...

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Jim Simons, the billionaire investor, mathematician and philanthropist, died on Friday in New York City, according to his foundation, the Simons Foundation. Simons was 86 years old. Simons, the ...