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A chessboard knight can't reach a given square twice as fast as the king. Christian Táfula Santos has proved it, using the famous Fibonacci sequence.

It's not a bad thing if you pick a toasted bagel for breakfast, while your partner chooses eggs. In fact, according to a new study from the University of Waterloo, that difference could help you lose some weight.

Dr. Roberto Hernández Palomares grew up in a working-class family in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato, where a career in mathematics often felt like an impossible dream.

Prestigious mathematics organization's satellite campus will offer research, study, collaboration opportunities Mathematicians like to put their heads together to solve tricky problems.

An UdeM professor and his collaborators have proven Pólya's conjecture for the eigenvalues of a disk, a tricky problem in mathematics.

So many people struggle with mathematics that there's a term for the dread you feel when faced with a calculation: math anxiety.

Professor Michael Wallace devises method to win 80 per cent of the time By Melodie Roschman Faculty of Mathematics Mathematician Alfré Rényi famously said that "a mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems.

British scientist Duncan Haldane, co-recipient of a Nobel prize in physics in 2016, is here for an international conference on conformal field theories and quantum 'many-body" physics.

For NBA stars and driveway basketball enthusiasts alike, the game HORSE conjures up memories of intense schoolyard competitions and boisterous neighbourhood hangouts.

Graduate students Patrick Naylor, Michael Tyler Paris and Simone Hu are recognized for their outstanding academic record and research By Angelica Marie Sanchez University Relations The University of

May 20, 2022 Chaitanya Swamy and William Slofstra among this year's winners of Waterloo designation for research excellence By Jon Parsons Faculty of Mathematics Two researchers from the Faculty of Mathematics have been awarded University Research Chairs.