The Science Quiz | How far can you count?
Questions: 1. If an octant is one-eighth, a quintant is one-fifth, and a trient is one-third, how mu...
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The physics and maths of keeping elections fair and representative | Explained
There are about 60 national elections in 2024 involving two billion people, including the biggest of...
The mind-bending maths that could stop ‘quantum hackers’
Imagine the tap of a card that bought you a cup of coffee this morning also let a hacker halfway acr...
The Science Quiz | Numbers have celebrities, too
Questions: 1. What is the lowest whole number whose name, when spelt out in English, contains the le...
Could the key to how good we are at maths be hidden in our brains?
In a scene from The Man Who Knew Infinity (2015), a biopic of the mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan,...
The Science Quiz: 370 years since the ‘problem of points’…
Questions: 1. Two people are playing a game of chance in rounds. They have equal chances of winning ...
Behind India’s record performance at International Math Olympiad 2024
Mathematics always interested 18-year-old Ananda Bhaduri. Growing up in Guwahati, he spent his forma...
Science for All | Scientists find a new tile shape
The Hindu’s weekly Science for All newsletter explains all things Science, without the jargon. (This...
Exploring the ‘wonderful world’ of symplectic geometry to solve problems in mechanics
Russian-American mathematician and Wolf Prize laureate Yakov Eliashberg delivered a public talk at I...
