The Axiom of Choice became one of the most feared and contested ideas in mathematics. It created elegant theorems and nightmares. From Zermelo to Gödel, we explore how brilliant minds wrestled with ...

Why do smarter people fall for easier mistakes? Cognitive science reveals how logic and overthinking collide in puzzles designed to test human reasoning itself. Mayday Over the Pacific: Singapore ...

Earlier this month, 36 sharp-witted high school students from around the globe stepped foot on the warm and breezy campus of Stanford University. Out of more than 4,000 students from more than 2,000 ...

A viral X thread sparked a debate between Pavel Durov and Elon Musk, igniting a discussion on whether math or physics is more crucial for aspiring entrepreneurs. Durov championed math for its ...

Time to test your brain! Are you a puzzle person? Most of these hard math problems aren’t straightforward arithmetic. They challenge you to look at problems a different way, testing your logic and ...

The Modal Predicate Calculus gives rise to issues surrounding the Barcan formulas, their converses, and necessary existence. I examine these issues by means of the Quantified Argument Calculus (Quarc) ...

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We will never know how many died during the Butlerian Jihad. Was it millions? Billions? Trillions, perhaps? It was a fantastic rage, a great revolt that spread like wildfire, consuming everything in ...

ABSTRACT: Cell lineages of nematodes are completely known: the adult male of Caenorhabditis elegans contains 1031 somatic cells, the hermaphrodite 959, not one more, not one less; cell divisions are ...