When are crowds smarter than individuals? And could it possibly happen in, of all places, Twitter?
Category: Math
Democracy isn’t math. But it isn’t NOT math.
A big-name new book, featuring a few of my scraggly illustrations.
Math Games with Bad Drawings
Your chance to help shape a forthcoming book.
Six Strategic Pen-and-Paper Games (from a Strange and Bottomless Mind)
Pencil, paper, and a little flash of genius.
Kids Say the Darnedest Cubics
A 9-year-old scrawls an innocent problem... and suddenly 3D surfaces are intersecting in 4D space.
$500 Million for Bloomberg Equals… What for You or Me?
Tricky equivalences.
A Compendium of Cool Internet Math Things
Visually stimulating. Mathematically rich.
The Mystery of the Super Bowl Match-Ups
Four teams. Four probabilities. This shouldn't be that hard... right?
The Game of Snakes
A pencil-and-paper game for the snake-fearing (or snake-loving) mathematician.
The Incalculable Joy of Fermi Questions
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