Mathematics

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• Potato paradox ▲ 559
• 6174 ▲ 511
• Michael O. Rabin ▲ 414
• Galactic Algorithm ▲ 382
• Simpson's paradox ▲ 365
• 100 prisoners problem ▲ 324
• Ramanujan's lost notebook ▲ 306
• Maryam Mirzakhani ▲ 299
• Friendship Paradox ▲ 288
• Zenzizenzizenzic ▲ 258
• Kalman Filter ▲ 252
• Burning Ship Fractal ▲ 252
• Two envelopes problem ▲ 249
• Visual calculus ▲ 231
• German tank problem ▲ 231
• Lindy effect ▲ 225
• 0.999...= 1 ▲ 218
• The moving sofa problem ▲ 215
• The Secretary Problem ▲ 202
• Nontransitive dice ▲ 194
• Garfield's proof of the Pythagorean theorem ▲ 190
• Kaktovik Numerals ▲ 180
• Negative Base ▲ 177
• Simpson's paradox ▲ 174
• Sprouts is a pencil-and-paper game with interesting mathematical properties ▲ 169
• Klára Dán von Neumann ▲ 168
• Flexagon ▲ 166
• Coastline paradox ▲ 164
• Katapayadi System ▲ 156
• OODA Loop ▲ 155
• XOR Linked List ▲ 153
• Cistercian Numerals ▲ 149
• Benford's Law ▲ 145
• Floral formula ▲ 142
• The Erlang Distribution ▲ 142
• The lonely runner conjecture ▲ 141
• Bellman's lost in a forest problem ▲ 139
• Braess’s paradox ▲ 134
• Anscombe's quartet ▲ 133
• Bourbaki dangerous bend symbol ▲ 129
• Bibi-binary ▲ 128
• Angel Problem ▲ 128
• Elwyn Berlekamp has died ▲ 125
• Sexy prime ▲ 124
• Monty Hall Problem ▲ 122
• The Price of Anarchy ▲ 120
• Gömböc ▲ 113
• Untouchable number ▲ 108
• Winsorized mean ▲ 108
• Q (Number Format) ▲ 106
• List of Statements Independent of ZFC ▲ 104
• Berkson's Paradox ▲ 101
• 142857 ▲ 100
• Ménage Problem ▲ 98
• Galton Board ▲ 98
• Long Hundred ▲ 97
• Arrow's impossibility theorem ▲ 97
• Cantor function, a.k.a. devil's staircase ▲ 96
• Brouwer–Hilbert controversy ▲ 95
• Bakhshali manuscript ▲ 94
• Tupper's formula ▲ 92
• Perturbation Theory ▲ 91
• Volume of an n-ball ▲ 90
• Ulam spiral ▲ 90
• Archimedes Palimpsest ▲ 86
• Goro Shimura has died ▲ 86
• Gray Code ▲ 86
• Seki Takakazu ▲ 84
• Goodstein's theorem ▲ 83
• Monge's theorem ▲ 83
• Tide-Predicting Machine No. 2 ▲ 82
• Kahan Summation Algorithm ▲ 80
• Greek numerals ▲ 80
• Gladys West ▲ 78
• Actuarial notation ▲ 78
• Fair cake-cutting ▲ 77
• Optimal Stopping ▲ 77
• Srinivasa Ramanujan ▲ 77
• Tarski's high school algebra problem ▲ 76
• Finite Element Method ▲ 75
• Conway notation ▲ 75
• Proofs from THE BOOK ▲ 72
• Finger Binary ▲ 72
• What do Bill Gates and Richard Stallman have in common ? ▲ 71
• Aztec Diamond ▲ 70
• Weird Number ▲ 70
• Cleo (mathematician) ▲ 69
• Parrondo's Paradox ▲ 69
• Toilet Paper Orientation ▲ 67
• Howland Will Forgery Trial ▲ 66
• Lakes of Wada ▲ 66
• Focal point (game theory) ▲ 65
• The Interesting Number Paradox ▲ 65
• Kolakoski sequence ▲ 64
• The hairy ball theorem ▲ 63
• Sunflower (mathematics) ▲ 62
• Banach–Tarski paradox ▲ 62
• Wallace Tree ▲ 61
• Combinatorial Explosion ▲ 61
• Hilbert's Paradox of the Grand Hotel ▲ 60
• Six Nines in Pi ▲ 60
• Ant On A Rubber Rope ▲ 58
• Gödel's Completeness Theorem ▲ 55
• Amplituhedron ▲ 55
• Sangaku ▲ 55
• Fixed-point combinator ▲ 54
• Clifford torus ▲ 54
• Lotka–Volterra equations ▲ 53
• Yottabyte ▲ 53
• Graham's Number ▲ 52
• Évariste Galois ▲ 51
• Buffon's Needle Problem ▲ 51
• Bernoulli discovered e by studying a question about compound interest ▲ 51
• Small-World Experiment ▲ 50
• Alexey Chervonenkis found dead ▲ 50
• Did you know that there's an algorithm for symbolic integration that always works? ▲ 50
• Erdős–Bacon number ▲ 48
• Quipu ▲ 47
• List of probability distributions ▲ 47
• Rule of 72 ▲ 47
• Fractional calculus ▲ 45
• Gauss's Pythagorean right triangle proposal ▲ 44
• Mills' constant ▲ 44
• List of mathematical symbols ▲ 44
• Cuisenaire rods ▲ 43
• Rhind Mathematical Papyrus ▲ 42
• Young's Lattice ▲ 42
• Green–Tao theorem ▲ 41
• (e^(i * pi)) + 1 = 0 ▲ 41
• Gibbs Phenomenon ▲ 40
• 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 31 ▲ 40
• The Art Gallery Problem ▲ 40
• Hindenburg Omen (Occurred Twice this Month) ▲ 40
• Ada Lovelace ▲ 39
• Excess-3 ▲ 37
• Akaike information criterion ▲ 36
• Hinged dissection ▲ 34
• Fractional Fourier transform ▲ 32
• Sexagesimal ▲ 31
• Birthday Paradox ▲ 31
• SKI combinator calculus ▲ 30
• Grigori Perelman ▲ 28
• Hierarchical clustering ▲ 28
• Menger Sponge ▲ 27
• Emirp Primes ▲ 27
• Narcissistic Number ▲ 27
• W. T. Tutte - mathematician and code breaker ▲ 27
• Nim Game ▲ 26
• Proving something exists nonconstructively using probability. ▲ 26
• Tragedy of the anticommons ▲ 25
• Knights of the Lambda Calculus ▲ 25
• Claude Shannon ▲ 25
• Ted Kaczynski ▲ 24
• Replication Crisis ▲ 24
• Kochen–Specker theorem ▲ 24
• Normally distributed and uncorrelated does not imply independent ▲ 24
• Alexander Abian ▲ 23
• Earnshaw's Theorem ▲ 23
• Basel Problem ▲ 23
• List of games in game theory ▲ 23
• Curry's paradox: "If this sentence is true, then Santa Claus exists." ▲ 23
• Itô calculus ▲ 22
• Bernoulli number ▲ 22
• Counting rods ▲ 22
• Weierstrass function ▲ 21
• Von Neumann's elephant ▲ 21
• Mutilated chessboard problem ▲ 21
• Pareto efficiency ▲ 20
• Extreme Value Theory ▲ 20
• Canadian Traveller Problem ▲ 20
• Nash equilibrium ▲ 20