Sudoku has exploded in popularity over the past few years. It now runs in many newspapers on a daily basis, and sudoku puzzle collections can be found in bookstores everywhere. In the June/July issue ...

Daily puzzlers would be quick to tell you that sudoku, Wordle’s mathematical cousin, is not as easy as it looks. The small grid, found often next to a word scramble or comic strip in a print newspaper ...

For those who are puzzled by math problems, a New Jersey college professor has published a book he believes will make the numbers less baffling. David Nacin, a professor of mathematics at William ...

An Irish mathematician has used a complex algorithm and millions of hours of supercomputing time to solve an important open problem in the mathematics of Sudoku, the game popularized in Japan that ...

Recreational math may sound like an oxymoron, but it is David Nacin’s guiding principle. Nacin is a former college deejay, yoga devotee and a 14-year mathematics professor at William Paterson ...

The number-placement puzzle, Sudoku, consists of a 9 x 9 grid which must be filled using the digits 1 to 9. However, there are several additional constraints. Each digit can only appear once in each ...

Let those of us who have never texted, watched tv, and been on a tablet at the same time cast the first stone. Credit: NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images Alleged blood scammer Elizabeth ...

Combining a 2,000-year-old Chinese math theorem with concepts from cryptology, scientists have devised "DNA Sudoku" -- a pooling strategy that allows tens of thousands of DNA samples to be combined ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Math Sudoku Test your math skills and solve the puzzles using addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Math Sudoku combines Sudoku and Math which ...

Some of our readers will recall the fiendishly difficult particle physics Sudoku puzzle I created for the June/July 2007 issue of symmetry. As Sudoku has taken off in popularity, a new area of ...