The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle the easiest pieces first. But this kind of sorting has a cost.

Sometimes, wrapping your head around mathematical concepts can be tricky without a visual aid. Thankfully we have makers like Russell Eveleigh out there who are busy making beautiful Raspberry ...