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Why are NASA engineers borrowing techniques from origami artists?
With roots in the 17th century, traditional Japanese origami mines beauty from rules, limitations and, ultimately, mathematics. But…
2019 PISA Indicators And Its Significance To Economic Growth
Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is a survey conceptualized by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development…
Global Cooperation Depends On The Strength Of Local Connections
The story of humanity is one of extraordinary cooperation but also terrible conflict. We come together to build…
Yes, Mathematics Can Be Decolonised. Here’s How To Begin
At a time when decolonisation, part of which involves changing the content of what’s taught, is dominating debate…
How A Mathematician Dissects A Coincidence
Whenever a seeming twist of fate happens, we muse “what are the odds?” This mathematician took the time…
Mercator and the Map that ‘Squared the Circle’
Even with today’s modern technology, able to digitize almost anything, representing the world on a flat map so…
How Big Data Can Also Discriminate Like People
“This program had absolutely nothing to do with race…but multi-variable equations.” That’s what Brett Goldstein, a former policeman…
A Mysterious Law That Predicts The Size Of The World’s Biggest Cities
For the past century, an obscure mathematical principle called Zipf’s law has predicted the size of mega-cities all…