There’s nothing quite like a maddening math problem, mind-bending optical illusion, or twisty logic puzzle to halt all productivity. We’re curious people by nature, but we also collectively share a ...

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SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, Vol. 27, No. 5 (Oct., 1990), pp. 1305-1321 (17 pages) A Delaunay triangulation of a set of nodes is a collection of triangles whose vertices are at the nodes and ...

Mathematicians have resolved the first one trillion cases of an ancient mathematics problem. The advance was made possible by a clever new computational technique for multiplying large numbers. The ...

One of the “game changing” pieces of scientific news in 2017 concerns the collision of two neutron stars about 130 million light-years away, first detected on August 17. One reason astronomers and ...

A method for estimating distances in sailing and astrophysics helps explain why riding on buses and boats can make us nauseous. This month’s Insights puzzle was inspired by a new way to determine the ...