Enlarge / Quantum Go Fish is just one of the many math-y games in Ben Orlin’s latest book, Math Games with Bad Drawings . (credit: Ben Orlin) Adapted from Math Games with Bad Drawings (2022) by Ben Orlin. You can read our latest interview with Orlin here . Of the thousand games I encountered in […]
Enlarge / Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe is at heart a game of fractal structure, per math teacher Ben Orlin, author of Math Games with Bad Drawings . Players must balance two levels, an element that requires them to “Think globally, act locally. ” (credit: Ben Orlin) In 1974, a geneticist named Marsha Jean Falco devised an ingenious […]
Enlarge / The patterns of the ocellated lizard are predictable by a mathematical model with regard to phase transitions. (credit: UNIGE or Michel Milinkovitch) Zebras and tigers have stripes, cheetahs plus leopards have spots, and the ocellated lizard ( Timon lepidus ) boasts a labyrinthine pattern of black-and-green chains associated with scales. Now researchers from […]