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When Numbers Get Politicized

21 Apr 2021

Do political beliefs affect our ability to crunch numbers?...

There are more ways to arrange a deck of cards than there are atoms on Earth

28 Jun 2018

Think of your last card game – euchre, poker, Go Fish, whatever it was. Would you believe every time you gave the whole deck a proper shuffle, you were holding a sequence of cards which had never...

Math behind the movies

6 Apr 2017

I remember back in high school math class, wondering aloud (to the teacher, no less- I was not shy) why I needed to take math. I was absolutely certain that I would never be entering a profession...

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