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More than 1,200 years ago, in the intellectual heart of Abbasid Baghdad, a Persian scholar quietly reshaped how humans understand numbers, problems and logic. His name was Muhammad ibn Musa ...

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Math, as it turns out, is doing more than making millions of teenagers unhappy over hard homework right now — it’s also making the world less democratic and egalitarian. In the wrong hands, ...

You scrambled up a Rubik’s cube, and now you want to put it back in order. What sequence of moves should you make? Surprise: You can answer this question with modern algebra. You might remember ...