Stories by ColinWright

Pi and the collapse of peer review

Biggest Data Leak in Sweden's History Punished with Half a Month's Paycheck

Facebook patent application describes spying on users through their webcams

Euclid's Orchard, the Euclidean algorithm, and Fibonacci numbers, with pictures

Equilibrium Solution to the Lowest Unique Positive Integer Game

Cover time of a graph: cliques, chains, and lollipops

Solving the Mystery of the Secret International Puzzle Party

Why there are mysterious giant barcodes across the US [video]

Iranian math genius, Fields Medal winner Mirzakhani passes away

What are some little-known but useful features of the tools used in prof'l math?

The Radius of the Earth

The Eudoxus Real Numbers: Constructing R Directly from Z

Electric Shock Drowning (ESD) Explained

The Steinhaus Longimeter: a device to measure the length of a curve

Finding greatest common divisors and all that

Maersk Shuts Down Some Systems to Help Contain Cyber Attack

Hawking urges Moon landing to 'elevate humanity'

New TSA Policy May Lead to Increased Scrutiny of Reading Material

Thinking About Mastodon

UK rail ticket machines hit by IT glitch