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Every summer, scores of tourists take to the bustling streets of Barcelona, a city known for its breathtaking architecture. Nicolás Atanes Santos, a young Spanish mathematician, sees this as an ...

It’s an old joke that there are three kinds of people in the world: those who are good at math and those who aren’t. Tanya Evans, an associate professor in the School of Education and Human ...

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