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Stay Puft Marshmallow Man The Marshmallow Man from Ghostbusters could make 300 million s'mores Thom Dunn
42 A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Number 42 David Pescovitz
mathematicians Freeman Dyson as remembered by Tim O'Reilly David Pescovitz
mentalism "Pick a number and I'll guess it": the math behind the magic David Pescovitz
modeling Video: the mathematics of where to park your car David Pescovitz
maths Tetris gives you random tetrominoes, right? Rob Beschizza
logos The history of Spikey, the Wolfram logo Rob Beschizza
riddles Can you solve the wizard standoff riddle? David Pescovitz
ruler Watch how 19th-century Genaille-Lucas calculating rulers work Andrea James
sandwich Math theorem: the most misshapen ham sandwich can always be cut into two perfect halves Andrea James
numbers Numberphile looks at mathematics' undecidable statements Andrea James
rendering Mathematical conjecture generates beautiful lifelike form Andrea James
philosophy of science Is mathematics invented or discovered? Andrea James
math problems The moving sofa math problem: still unsolved 50 years later Andrea James
mondrian This Mondrian math puzzle yields puzzling scores Andrea James
prodigy How a child math prodigy sees numbers as shapes Andrea James
Vsauce Mind-blowing explainer on fixed points Andrea James
roundness Sierra Leone is the roundest country Rob Beschizza
futilitycloset The real story behind Indiana's celebrated attempt to legislate the value of Pi Futility Closet
July 4 The geometry of fireworks Xeni Jardin

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