Mathematicians around the world have expressed their belief that a discussion on the overseas bulletin board 4chan may solve a difficult problem called ` `The Minimal Superpermutation Problem,'' which ...

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According to Professor Le Anh Vinh, in the past, students could spend many days, even a whole week, pondering a difficult ...

The Miami Heat will spend the next few days in Boston trying to figure out a math problem. That math problem was a big problem for the Heat in Game 1 against the Boston Celtics, as the top-seeded ...

An 80-year-old problem concerning the simplex method, known as the mathematics of optimization, was recently solved. Getty Images In the movie 'Good Will Hunting,' the protagonist, a janitor at the ...

You can probably think of a time when you’ve used math to solve an everyday problem, such as calculating a tip at a restaurant or determining the square footage of a room. But what role does math play ...

Can you solve the elementary school problem that divided the internet in less than 30 seconds? Test your might in this ...

The Monty Hall problem is a difficult problem in probability theory that is so famous that even a well-known mathematician mistakes it as 'a problem in which the answer that seems intuitively correct ...