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Mastering Geometry Puzzles
My new book with 120 geometry puzzles, all of them with step-by-step solutions.
You can pre-order it on Amazon.
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Puzzle #22
The number 439 is created out of fifteen matchsticks.
Move two matchsticks to get a 3-digit number, all of them even numbers.
This puzzle was published on the @newscientist.com.
Solution 👇
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November 11, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Abel transformation
Abel transformation, named after Niels Abel, transforms the summation of products of sequences into other summations, often simplifying the computation or (especially) estimation...
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November 10, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Mastering Geometry Puzzles
My new book with 120 geometry puzzles, all of them with step-by-step solutions.
You can pre-order it on Amazon.
Learn more about the book below 👇
blogenigmath.wordpress.com/2025/10/19/m...
#math #geometry #puzzle #book #MasteringGeometryPuzzles #booksky
November 9, 2025 at 8:17 PM
“A marveilous newtrality have these things mathematicall and also a strange participation between things supernaturall, imortall, intellectuall, simple and indivisible, and things naturall, mortall, sensible, compounded and divisible.”

John Dee
– English mathematician
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November 9, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Heart
Cartesian equation
y² + z³ − z⁴ − x²z² = 0
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November 8, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Great dodecahedron
Polyhedron with twelve pentagonal faces with five pentagons meeting at each vertex, intersecting each other making a pentagrammic path.
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November 7, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Pentagonal tiling 9
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November 6, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Lars Ahlfors
Finish mathematician.
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November 5, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Folium of Descartes
The folium of Descartes is a curve that was first proposed and studied by René Descartes in 1638.
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November 4, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Seventeen
Seventeen is a prime number.
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November 3, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Mastering Geometry Puzzles
My new book with 120 geometry puzzles, all of them with step-by-step solutions.
You can pre-order it on Amazon.
Learn more about the book below 👇
blogenigmath.wordpress.com/2025/10/19/m...
#math #geometry #puzzle #book #MasteringGeometryPuzzles #booksky
November 2, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Draughts
Draughts is a strategy board game for two players which involve diagonal moves of uniform game pieces and mandatory captures by jumping over opponent pieces.
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November 2, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Puzzle #21
The two equal sides of an isosceles triangle trisects the top left vertex of the square with side length 6
What is the area of the triangle?
Solution 👇
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November 1, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Abel transform
Abel transform, named after Niels Abel, is an integral transform often used in the analysis of spherically symmetric or axially symmetric functions.
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October 31, 2025 at 6:08 AM
“Our ignorance of this beautiful subject — a tree of ideas with ancient roots and modern fruit — is profound and beset with fear, superstition, and misinformation.”

Philip Davis
– American academic applied mathematician
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October 30, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Helix
Cartesian equation
6x² − 2x⁴ = y²z²
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October 29, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Small stellated dodecahedron
Polyhedron with twelve pentagrammic faces with five pentagrams meeting at each vertex.
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October 28, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Pentagonal tiling 8
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October 27, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Manindra Agrawal
Indian mathematician.
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October 26, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Mastering Geometry Puzzles
My new book with 120 geometry puzzles, all of them with step-by-step solutions.
You can pre-order it on Amazon.
Learn more about the book below 👇
blogenigmath.wordpress.com/2025/10/19/m...
#math #geometry #puzzle #book #MasteringGeometryPuzzles #booksky
October 26, 2025 at 5:57 AM
October 25, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Sixteen
Sixteen is a composite number with proper divisors 1, 2, 4 and 8.
16 is a square number.
16 is the largest known integer n for which 2n + 1 is prime.
Also:
- A hexadecagon has 16 sides.
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October 24, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Konane
Konane is a strategy board game invented by the ancient Polynesians of Hawaii.
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October 23, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Puzzle #20
The sides of a rectangle with perimeter 12 are parallel to the sides of the square with side length 10
What is the area of the rectangle?
Solution 👇
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October 22, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Abel’s theorem
Abel’s theorem for power series relates a limit of a power series to the sum of its coefficients. It is named after Norwegian mathematician Niels Abel.
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Abel’s theorem
Abel’s theorem for power series relates a limit of a power series to the sum of its coefficients. It is named after Norwegian mathematician Niels Abel. Suppose $latex \displaystyle \sum_{n=0}…
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October 21, 2025 at 5:34 PM