“And have you noticed that not one of us has hair that matches his or her name?” “By golly, you’re right!” exclaimed Professor White. If the woman’s hair isn’t brown, what color is it?

In 1979, Hounsfield won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his role in the development of computer-assisted ...

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Of the many wonderful chessboard math problems, this one is my favorite because of its surprising solution. Who would expect the coloring of the squares to be the key to unlocking the puzzle? But ...

Then the explorer shoots a bear. What color is the bear? The time-honored answer is “white” because the explorer must have started at the North Pole.

Students who made math history when they were in high school have now published new ways of proving the Pythagorean Theorem using trigonometry.

Puzzle Brain teaser: This 'tricky' nature-inspired math puzzle might stump you if you're not careful Can you solve this math equation featuring yellow dandelions, purple flowers and four-leaf clovers?

The math puzzle, for example, changes every day. The answers can’t really be written down in a list — even once you learn what each color means, you still have to solve the equation itself on ...

Calcea Johnson and Ne'Kiya Jackson surprised the math world when, as seniors in high school, they produced innovative solutions to a 2,000-year-old puzzle.

Today, we’re publishing the first-ever collection of Riddler puzzles in a book. The puzzles in the collection originated not from a dutiful ancient scribe but often from people like you.