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Fun, accessible articles exploring weird and wonderful puzzles and problems from the world of maths.
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30 September 2025 / 31 December 2025 by Ryan G
Imagine you’re standing in front of an infinite number of sock drawers. Each drawer contains at least one sock, but all the socks are jumbled up, and, just to make things spicy, they’re not labelled or colour-coded. Your mission? Pick one sock from each drawer, forming a neat, infinite collection of single socks. Welcome to the Axiom of Choice.
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17 June 2025 / 31 December 2025 by Nathan AG
Hilbert’s Paradox of the Grand Hotel is a fascinating thought experiment in mathematics, introduced by German mathematician David Hilbert in the early 20th century. You arrive at a hotel with an infinite number of rooms, but they are all full. However, you can still check in and get a room. Want to find out how?
5 May 2025 / 31 December 2025 by Charlton C
This problem poses a seemingly simple yet surprisingly complex question: What is the largest possible area of a two-dimensional shape that can be manoeuvred around a right-angled corner in a corridor of unit width?
2 December 2024 / 31 December 2025 by Nathan AG
This is the city of Königsberg in the 18th century. The problem was simple: Can you walk through the city and cross each bridge exactly once?
19 November 2024 / 31 December 2025 by Etti B
Can you move three disks from one post to another?
16 April 2024 / 31 December 2025 by Etti B
Why is it that if there are 23 people in a room, it is more likely than not that two of share share a birthday?
14 August 2023 / 31 December 2025 by Charlton C
The Monty Hall Problem is one of the most interesting logic puzzles around. It is named after Monty Hall, who hosted the American Gameshow Let’s Make a Deal, where there was a particular challenge that if players picked the right door from 3, they could win a car.
