A version of this puzzle originally appeared in the October 1960 issue of Scientific American. What’s the Most Distant Galaxy ...

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Halafian pottery shows that early agricultural societies practiced advanced mathematical thinking through plant-based art long before writing.

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As 2025 winds down, I have come to the uncomfortable conclusion that mistakes were made. Picking the Grizzlies to win the "Super Brawl," for example. That was some tortured math. Thinking Cal Raleigh ...

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Edward Doolittle's trailblazing work in Indigenous mathematics considers the mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual dimensions of the subject. A Kanien'kehá:ka (Mohawk) mathematics associate ...