Math Arcade

Interactive toys for the greatest unsolved problems, curious sequences, and beautiful structures in mathematics. Pick one. Play.

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Collatz Conjecture

Enter any number. Halve if even, triple-plus-one if odd. It always reaches 1 โ€” but nobody can prove it.

Unsolved
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Goldbach's Conjecture

Every even number > 2 is the sum of two primes. See the prime pairs arc across a number line.

Unsolved
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Ulam Spiral

Plot integers on a spiral, highlight the primes. Mysterious diagonal lines appear from nowhere.

Prime Mystery
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Mandelbrot Set

The most famous fractal. Click to zoom infinitely deep. Endless complexity from zยฒ + c.

Fractal
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Recamรกn's Sequence

Jump forward or back โ€” whichever hasn't been visited. The arcs paint themselves into art.

Curious
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Langton's Ant

Two rules, one ant. 10,000 steps of chaos โ€” then a highway emerges. Emergent order from nothing.

Automaton
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Twin Primes

Primes differing by 2 โ€” (11,13), (41,43). Are there infinitely many? Watch them thin out.

Unsolved
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Riemann & Primes

How many primes below x? Plot ฯ€(x) against its approximations. The $1M question lives here.

Millennium Prize
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Pascal mod N

Color Pascal's triangle by remainder. Mod 2 = Sierpinski. Mod 3, 5, 7 = other fractals.

Fractal
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Lorenz Attractor

The butterfly that started chaos theory. Two nearly identical points โ†’ wildly different futures.

Chaos
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Busy Beaver

The hardest function in math. Watch Turing machine champions write as many 1s as possible before halting.

Uncomputable
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Rondanini Problem

Collatz meets the Halting Problem. A rigorous, original formulation that is provably undecidable.

Undecidable
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Rondanini Diophantine

One explicit polynomial in 16 variables. Pure integers, no machines. A named instance of Hilbert's 10th โ€” provably undecidable.

Hilbert's 10th
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Mirrane Geometry

Can one collection of polygons be cut and reassembled into another? Scissors, glue โ€” and undecidability.

Geometry
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Mirrane Quantum

Predict a quantum measurement outcome above a threshold. Nature itself performs uncomputable processes.

Quantum
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Mirrane Chaos

Does this deterministic system enter a chaotic attractor? Even fully predictable equations can hide the uncomputable.

Dynamical Systems
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Mirrane Topology

Is this triangulated space a sphere? In high dimensions, no algorithm can always tell you.

Topology
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Mirrane Alignment

Will this AI ever violate a safety rule? Rice's theorem says: no universal checker exists.

AI Safety
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Gallery of Impossible Questions

The complete Rondaniniโ€“Mirrane collection. Seven problems across six domains. All provably unsolvable.

The Collection
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The Human Wing

Nine paradoxes of being. Identity, meaning, regret, empathy, love โ€” questions that live inside consciousness.

Human
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The Civilizational Wing

Six paradoxes of societies. Progress, values, collective will, culture โ€” questions that emerge from coordination.

Civilization
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The Perception Wing

Six paradoxes of seeing. Representation, reality, illusion, silence โ€” the space between seeing and knowing.

Perception
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The Time Wing

Six paradoxes of temporality. The present, the arrow, impermanence, continuity โ€” questions from inside the flow.

Time
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The Music Wing

Nine paradoxes of sound. Tuning, silence, resolution, authorship โ€” the bridging exhibit that touches every wing.

Music