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Mastering Geometry Puzzles
My new book with 120 geometry puzzles, all of them with step-by-step solutions.
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Great icosahedron
Polyhedron with twenty intersecting triangular faces with five triangles meeting at each vertex in a pentagrammic sequence.
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November 25, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Pentagonal tiling 11
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November 24, 2025 at 7:15 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...
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November 23, 2025 at 4:17 PM
John Aitchison
Born: July 22, 1926, East Linton, East Lothian, Scotland, United Kingdom.
Died: December 23, 2016, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.
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November 23, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Fibonacci Day is an informal holiday celebrated on November 23 to honor the Italian mathematician Leonardo of Pisa, also known as Fibonacci. The date, when written in the month/day format (11/23), represents the first four numbers of the Fibonacci sequence: 1, 1, 2, 3.
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November 23, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Nineteen
Nineteen is a prime number.
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November 22, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Abalone
Abalone abstract strategy board game by Michel Lalet and Laurent Lévi in 1987.
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November 21, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Puzzle #23
The figure is composed by twenty nine matchsticks.
Move two matchsticks to get a correct multiplication result.
This puzzle was published on the @newscientist.com.
Solution 👇
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November 20, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Abelian variety
An abelian variety, named after Niels Abel, variety is a higher dimensional version of an elliptic curve.
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November 19, 2025 at 7:37 AM
“The nature of mathematical demonstration is totally different from all other, and the difference consists in this—that, instead of showing the contrary of the proposition asserted to be only improbable, it...”
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November 18, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Heaven and Hell
Cartesian equation
x² − y²z² = 0
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November 17, 2025 at 7:18 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 16, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Great stellated dodecahedron
Polyhedron with twelve pentagrammic faces with three pentagrams meeting at each vertex.
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#enigmath #math #polyhderon
November 16, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Pentagonal tiling 10
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November 15, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Alexander Aigner
Austrian mathematician.
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November 14, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Eighteen
Eighteen is a composite number with proper divisors 1, 2, 3, 6 and 9.
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November 13, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Backgammon
Backgammon is a two player board game where each player has fifteen pieces (checkers) which move between twenty-four triangles according to the roll of two dice.
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November 12, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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