Azul Plan B Games / Next Move Games, $39.99 Ages 8+ In Azul, you're an artisan, decorating the walls of the Royal Palace of Evora with beautiful ceramic tiles, just like the Moorish tiles used in Portugal. But really, this board game for two to four people is all about … [Read more...]
Classic Reconsidered: Godel, Escher, Bach
"This sentence is a lie." That sentence is a famous philosophical paradox. If the sentence is true, that means it's a lie. But if it's a lie, then it can't be true. And if it's false, that means it's not a lie. But that means it's telling the truth. It's impossible to make … [Read more...]
TIPsters Do Math–Competitively
Sometimes, a little competition can bring out the best in you. But academics don't always include the same kind of challenge that athletics do—until you find yourself at a math competition, anyway. To learn more about the world of competitive math, we spoke to two TIPsters … [Read more...]
Mathematicians Spent 65 Years Trying to Solve for the Number 42. But Why?
One million hours. That's how long it took to run the calculations for a ground-breaking mathematics discovery. And that wasn't some lone genius typing numbers into his graphing calculator for a million hours: it was a worldwide computer network running calculations for a … [Read more...]