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Category Archives: Let me show you the math!

In this category we collect articles where we discuss mathematical concepts and results. In all these articles we aim at making the mathematics accessible, we focus on the ideas and omit unnecessary technicalities.

Playing with Colors Part 2: An open problem related to graph colouring

In Part 1 of this series on graph coloring, all the graphs that we saw were finite, i.e., they had…

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Leonidas Theocharous December 23, 2022

Playing with Colors

Part 1: Learn about applied and theoretical aspects of graph coloring: a tool that helps us design exam schedules or…

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Leonidas Theocharous December 16, 2022

How many colors do you need to color a map?

A mathematician once told me that problems that are very simple to state can be very deceiving, and sometimes turn…

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Jasper Konijn June 26, 2022

The share bike mystery

The tale of the mathematical fairies that move bikes around when no one is watching.

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Lucas van Kreveld February 18, 2022

A balanced schedule for the Premier League of Darts exists… and is not used…

The Premier League of Darts, which started February 3rd 2022, is an annual competition where the best darts players of…

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Roel Lambers, Rudi Pendavingh, Frits Spieksma February 4, 2022

Percolation theory: about math and gossip

It is some time now I wanted to write about a mathematical result I think is really beautiful. It comes…

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Nicos Starreveld November 6, 2021

A big breakthrough in the Euclidean Travelling Salesman Problem

Recently there has been a breakthrough in the field of algorithms for geometric network problems, concerning the complexity of the…

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Nicos Starreveld September 17, 2021

DNA self-assembly gives birth to new mathematics

At this very moment, the emergent science of DNA self-assembly is giving birth to a new field of mathematics that…

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Jo Ellis-Monaghan August 20, 2021

Passing a negative coin

A brand new solution to an old mathematical problem. 

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Nelly Litvak June 11, 2021

Stumbling around in a changing world

Random walks are popularly described as a drunkard’s path down the streets. What happens when the streets also start to…

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Oliver Nagy May 28, 2021
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