A seemingly easy math puzzle making the rounds on the internet has left people scratching their heads as it requires some clever thinking. The brainteaser, that was shared on X this week by user ...

OUR mathematical readers who do not read German will be glad to know that they have now before them a translation of a discussion of three famous geometric problems of antiquity, namely, the ...

Problem solving is the mental process of analyzing a situation, learning what options are available, and then choosing the alternative that will result in the desired outcome or some other selected ...

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