The Curious Mind

Politics & Game Theory

When Cooperation Works and When It Doesn't

Jan 25 • Álvaro Muñiz Brea

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The St. Petersburg Lottery: A 300-Year-Old Puzzle That Will Change How You Think About Risk and Value

Why Mathematicians Say You Should Pay Any Price For This Lottery—But No Sane Person Would Pay More Than €20

Jan 4 • Álvaro Muñiz Brea

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November 2025

Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity #BookReview

Medicine 3.0: The Essential Strategy for Mastering Healthspan and Defeating the Four Horsemen

Nov 16, 2025 • Álvaro Muñiz Brea

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Why We Buy Insurance and Play the Lottery

How Our Brains Distort Small Probabilities

Nov 2, 2025 • Álvaro Muñiz Brea

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October 2025

The Art of Mental Math: Patterns, Shortcuts, and Intuition

Simple Tricks that Train your Brain to See Numbers Differently

Oct 19, 2025 • Álvaro Muñiz Brea

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Taming Randomness: The Central Limit Theorem Explained

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

Oct 4, 2025 • Álvaro Muñiz Brea

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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, 2025 • 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, 2025 • 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, 2025 • 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, 2025 • 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, 2025 • Álvaro Muñiz Brea

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Public Key Cryptography: How Math Secures the Internet

From WWII Codebreaking to Quantum-Proof Security

Aug 17, 2025 • Álvaro Muñiz Brea

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