It’s wild to think that a math puzzle from the 1200s is now helping power AI, encryption, and the digital world we live in.

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Nearly twenty years after I graduated high school and my last calculus class, I still get that nightmare where I’m at the exam for a calculus course I somehow forgot to attend, or that I faked my way ...

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The answer lies in your childhood nemesis – Math! You see, Math has a funny way of creeping into our lives in ways other than ...