Chess
A Fascinating Prisoner’s Puzzle
Exploring different approaches to this seemingly impossible problem reveals some interesting connections between various branches of maths
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Linear Algebra
Matrix Multiplication and the Ingenious Strassen’s Algorithm
How Divide-And-Conquer Comes to the Rescue (again)
Applied Statistics
The Lacking Wisdom of Crowds
Implications of Condorcet’s jury theorem
Prime Numbers
Primes and The Powers of Two
Relating the powers of two with primes and perfect numbers
Research
The Origin of Group Testing
How to test N people with less than N tests
Number Theory
The Discovery Of The First Irrational Number
How Hippasus of Metapontum ended up being drowned at sea for coming up with a groundbreaking proof.
Quantum Physics
The Worst Theoretical Prediction in the History of Physics
Dark Energy, and One of the Most Famous Unsolved Problem in Physics
Probability Theory
Math-Based Decision Making: The Secretary Problem
How probability theory answers the question “accept or reject?”
Algorithm
The Boyer-Moore Algorithm
Computing the majority vote on pen and paper
Popular Science
A Totally New, Very Old Method for Finding Square Roots
A new iterative method to approximate square roots — actually shown to be centuries old!
Probability Theory
What is the Birthday Paradox?
1. It isn’t a paradox. 2. It’s easy to solve.
Classical Mechanics
The Navier-Stokes Equations
A simple introduction to a million dollar problem