A version of this puzzle originally appeared in the October 1960 issue of Scientific American.

Somewhere at the edge of mathematics lurks a number so large that it breaks the very foundations of our understanding - and ...

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Abstract: In this article, online noncooperative games without full decision information are studied, where the goal of players is to seek the Nash equilibria in a distributed manner. Different from ...

In a world run by computers, there is one algorithm that stands above all the rest. It powers search engines, encrypts your data, guides rockets, runs simulations, and makes the modern digital ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in general, research mathematicians don’t need to think about it ...

Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price. Unhappy with their meager profits, they meet one night in a ...

Airoclip has raised nearly $2.8 million in its seed round. Puzzle games Tap Hexa and Hexa Dreams have already reached over 300,000 installs. Bengaluru-based games startup Airoclip has raised nearly $2 ...