Chandan Singh Gughtyal has been teaching Maths in boarding schools in India for about 28 years. He has experience of working as an assistant housemaster, housemaster, resident dorm parent, and dorm ...

Brain-imaging techniques have made it possible to explore the neural foundations of logical and mathematical cognition. These techniques are revealing more than simply where these high-order processes ...

Today’s three questions are variations of classic logic puzzles that used a cheap Take That reference as clickbait. Here’s my excuse. 1. The fork in the road You are travelling to a Take That concert ...

There are inherent limits to logic that can’t be resolved, and they bedevil our minds too, says Noson Yanofsky in The Outer Limits of Reason “THIS sentence is false.” This sentence is also where the ...

Earlier this month, 36 sharp-witted high school students from around the globe stepped foot on the warm and breezy campus of Stanford University. Out of more than 4,000 students from more than 2,000 ...

Mathematics majors study the relationships between numbers, structures and patterns. Their classes range from algebra to statistics, and the concepts build on one another. Students learn skills like ...

Apologies for those of you who are here to read about Take That. In this column’s defence, it is a continual challenge to find a funny headline with the world ‘logic’ in it. Today’s three puzzles ...