Netflix premiered a new sci-fi show this year, 3 Body Problem, which brought attention to a whole host of nerdy Wikipedia articles. [No spoilers!] One of those topics was the three-body problem. The TL;DR version is that if you have
If you’ve watched a single uninterrupted TV commercial break in the past couple years you’ve probably noticed the deluge of sports betting ads. The industry is growing incredibly quickly. It has brought in well over $300 billion in wagers since
You’ve probably heard that March 14 is unofficially (or maybe officially in some circles) recognized as Pi Day. That’s because the digits 3-1-4 match the first three digits in the number pi (π = 3.14159265…). I’ve always said there’s no
“What’s a palindrome again? Wait, I think that’s an anagram. I can’t even spell onomatopoeia.” A palindrome is a word or phrase (or anything, really) that’s written the same forward and backward. For example: Racecar Madam Evil olive Step on
Every Friday morning FiveThirtyEight posts a math challenge in their Riddler column. The May 21, 2021 problem featured “anti-isosceles” sets. I’ll let the Riddler himself explain in more detail: But this week, Jordan is asking about what he calls
Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man. —Henry Adams Recently I watched a Youtube video from Numberphile that piqued my interest. If you aren’t familiar with the channel, they produce a lot of short math