A new proof from the Australian science fiction writer Greg Egan and a 2011 proof anonymously posted online are now being hailed as significant advances on a puzzle mathematicians have been studying ...

In 2011, an anonymous 4chan poster asked how many episodes of a particular anime they would have to watch if they wanted to watch the minimum episodes in every possible way. The problem with this is ...

On September 16, 2011, an anime fan posted a math question to the online bulletin board 4chan about the cult classic television series The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. Season one of the show, which ...

The Annals of Statistics, Vol. 43, No. 6 (December 2015), pp. 2537-2564 (28 pages) Motivated by a neuroscience question about synchrony detection in spike train analysis, we deal with the independence ...

The combinatorial properties of the Bernoulli and Euler numbers are interpreted using a new classification of permutations. The classification is naturally described by an operator algebra of a type ...