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The Aperiodical. By Colin Beveridge. Posted August 19, 2026.
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The Magic Theorem
Back in 2008, Chaim Goodman-Strauss and Heidi Burgel, together with the late John Conway, wrote a book called The Symmetries of Things, which covered a range of topics around mathematical symmetry …
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Numerical coincidences for 2025
There seem to be a lot of numerical coincidences bouncing around concerning the new year 2025. For example, it's a square number: ( 2025 = 452 ). The last square year was (442 = 1936), …
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A Puzzle about a Calculator
It's now been a year since I took over the puzzle column at New Scientist and turned it into the BrainTwisters column. By way of celebration, I thought I'd write up an interesting bit o…
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A New Sequence
Or The Novice's Guide To Achieving Mathematical Immortality This is a guest post from Barney Maunder-Taylor. A great way to achieve mathematical immortality is to solve an outstanding open qu…
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Any way you cut it
I'd like to cut a rectangle into a 34 grid of squares. To minimise the number of cuts, should I cut three long strips first, or four short strips? Does it matter?
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