Math Games

Think You Can Pass Cambridge University’s Difficult Admission Test?

All so-called math or science communicators are just rehashing existing ideas and materials. To be clear, there are more than enough…

It’s Time To Take YouTube Seriously

The Wacom One budget tablet arrived today through eBay. I was out and about with my friend, but thankfully, my housemate helped collect the…

A 300-Year-Old Geometry Puzzle Finally Has an Answer

The first known shape that cannot pass through itself has been discovered, settling a mathematical question born from a royal bet

7 Elegant Mathematical Proofs Without Words

Mathematics is a vast and ever expanding subject. It’s got numbers, symbols, formulas, proofs and diagrams. As one advances to higher…

This Equation Looked in the Mirror — and Drew Itself!

There are math formulas that calculate. There are formulas that predict planets, encrypt secrets, optimise economies, and describe the…

Do NOT Solve This With Calculus!

At first glance, this maths puzzle appears to require multivariable calculus.

The Fibonacci Sequence Is Hiding Inside 1/89

Some mathematical facts feel inevitable.

The Coin Flip Hidden Inside Every Cubic Equation

Somewhere in the Mediterranean, around 500 B.C., a group of men threw their colleague overboard for doing mathematics.

A Roundabout Puzzle: Can 12 Roads Be Made Safer?

Roundabouts are useful for avoiding the delay of traffic lights, but they also come with a higher risk of accidents. To measure this risk…

A Fun Cambridge University Maths Challenge From The Year 2023: Can You Do It In Your Head?

I feel like because I have been posting daily maths puzzles over the past few years, whenever I look at a solution to any maths question, I…

When Infinity Stops Making Sense: 7 Mathematical Paradoxes

“Infinity is not just a very large number. It’s a place where logic begins to behave in ways that seem impossible.”

Can You Evaluate This Without Using The Square Root On The Calculator?

My challenge for you today is to find the value of this expression.

How Many Duplicate FIFA World Cup Stickers Should You Expect?

A World Cup Maths Puzzle

Why Use Radians in Calculus?

The Secret Language of the Circle

The Rubik’s Cube Is a Tiny Philosophy Machine

How a plastic icon of pop culture secretly teaches group theory, humility, and the art of undoing

Cavalieri’s Principle: Calculus of the Ancient Times

Before the Giants of Newton and Leibniz

What If the Universe Has No Edge and No Centre?

The strange topology at the frontier of cosmology, and what a video game from 1980 has to do with the shape of everything

Can You Find The Shaded Area?

Geometry Challenge: 4 circles and one triangle

How Quickly Can You Come Up With All 3 Solutions?

A Geometry Problem

The World Does Not Play by Your Rules

Five paradoxes that expose the gap between how we think probability works and how it actually behaves

The Art and Science Of Maths Communication

Is to be at peace with the fact that some people like painting on a canvass more than solving equations on a blackboard. And that’s ok.

The Monster Group: The Largest Symmetry Nobody Expected

Mathematics has many ways of making ordinary language fail.

Hawking’s Black Hole Prediction Faces a Mathematical Challenge

A decades-old assumption that extremal black holes couldn’t exist has been overturned by a surprising new proof.

An 80-Year-Old Puzzle That FINALLY Changed Number Theory!

Apparently Researchers Are Astonished That AI Cracked An 80-year-old Mathematics Challenge

The late Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős thought he had the last word on a geometry problem. Now an OpenAI chatbot has proved him wrong.