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Puzzles are a hands-on way to explore simpler and complex mathematical relationships, for everyone from kids to calculus students.

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A type of chaos found in everything from prime numbers to turbulence can unify a pair of unrelated ideas, revealing a ...

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The Riemann Hypothesis is one of the most famous problems in that set. It’s about prime numbers. That’s any whole number that can only be divided by 1 and itself – like 2, 3, 5, 7 and 11.

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