The Curious Mind

Taming Randomness: The Central Limit Theorem Explained

Why Bigger Samples Give More Reliable Results—and How We Can Measure Confidence.

Oct 4 • 

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September 2025

Why Big Numbers Reveal Big Truths: The Law of Large Numbers

How a Few Thousand Voices Can Speak for Millions

Sep 21 • 

Álvaro Muñiz Brea

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A Moving Walkway, a Loose Shoelace—and a Surprising Math Lesson

How a Tiny Decision at the Airport Reveals a Neat Mathematical Truth

Sep 14 • 

Álvaro Muñiz Brea

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The Mutilated Chessboard: When Math Beats Brute Force

How the Right Perspective Can Make Everything Obvious

Sep 7 • 

Álvaro Muñiz Brea

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August 2025

How Holiday Planning Could Win You $1 Million

The Travelling Salesman Problem: From Galician Road Trips to the Deepest Unsolved Mystery in Mathematics

Aug 31 • 

Álvaro Muñiz Brea

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Russell's Paradox: How a British Philosopher Showed Math Had a Fatal Flaw

From Barber Shops to Set Theory: The Paradox that Redefined Mathematics

Aug 24 • 

Álvaro Muñiz Brea

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Public Key Cryptography: How Math Secures the Internet

From WWII Codebreaking to Quantum-Proof Security

Aug 17 • 

Álvaro Muñiz Brea

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The Birthday Problem–Should You Take My 100€ Bet?

The Counterintuitive Math that Will Change How You See Coincidences

Aug 10 • 

Álvaro Muñiz Brea

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Archimedes' Principle: Why Ships Float But Rocks Sink

The 2,000-Year-Old Bath Discovery That Changed Everything

Aug 3 • 

Álvaro Muñiz Brea

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May 2025

Framing Effects: Why Your Moral Values Might Be Inconsistent

The Same Problem, Two Opposite Decisions

May 12

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April 2025

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable #BookReview

Nassim Taleb's Guide to Dealing with an Unpredictable World

Apr 27 • 

Álvaro Muñiz Brea

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When Time Slows Down: Einstein's Special Relativity

Beyond Newton: The Theory That Redefined Time, Space, and Motion

Apr 20 • 

Álvaro Muñiz Brea

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