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Confessions of a Luddite mathematician.

Why do some wizards know no spells?

Ben Orlin Math 8 Comments March 16, 2022March 15, 2022 3 Minutes

Transitivity and its failures.

In a complex world, A > B and B > C may not mean A > C.

Ben Orlin Math 11 Comments March 2, 2022March 2, 2022 3 Minutes

Two ways to play chess. Also, two ways to live.

Surfing the state space vs. probing the game tree.

Ben Orlin Math 8 Comments February 23, 2022February 22, 2022 2 Minutes

A theory of trios.

Inspired by the card game SET.

Ben Orlin Cartoons, Math 5 Comments February 16, 2022February 16, 2022 2 Minutes

A Love Story of Machine Learning

Supervised yearning.

Ben Orlin Math, Sentiments 11 Comments February 14, 2022February 8, 2022 1 Minute

What makes a great puzzle? Five books, five answers.

Languages. Shapes. Logic. Computation. And a rival to sudoku.

Ben Orlin Catriona Shearer, Puzzle Wizard, Math 9 Comments January 24, 2022 5 Minutes

A book of deep, easy-to-play mathematical games (and why they matter).

Now available for preorder.

Ben Orlin Math 22 Comments January 19, 2022January 19, 2022 2 Minutes

The Horrors of log(log(log(t)))

And other math cartoons.

Ben Orlin Cartoons, Math 4 Comments September 1, 2021July 13, 2021 1 Minute

The Seven Deadly Sin(e)s

Moral transgressions, as identified by trigonometry teachers.

Ben Orlin Cartoons, Math 11 Comments July 19, 2021July 14, 2021 1 Minute

Your digit-swapping birthday.

A mathematical riddle.

Ben Orlin Math 4 Comments July 15, 2021July 15, 2021 2 Minutes

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