Math and Chess Club Info Page

Welcome to the Math and Chess Club!

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• Chess.com links are purple.
• Wikipedia links are the default color (blue on most computers).
• Other website links are orange.
• New and updated links are italic.

CHESS LINKS

Anyone that abides by fair play rules is invited to play chess for our team.

• Admins and Coordinators are eligible to join our Administrative Club.
• Members must follow the Community Policies and Fair Play Policy.
• Opening databases and opening books are permitted in Daily Chess and Vote Chess, but the use of engines and tablebases is never permitted.
• Fair Play and Cheating (Chess.com Support)
• Fair Play and Cheat-Detection (Article by Chess.com Help)
• 🤔 How many different chess positions are there?
• 🤔 How many different chess960 positions exist after one move by each side?
• 🤔 Geometric Chess Puzzles

🇳🇴 Magnus Carlsen | World Rank #1

🇨🇳 Ding Liren | 2023 World Champion

🇮🇳 Gukesh Dommaraju | 2024 World Champion

🇨🇳 Ju Wenjun | Women's World Champion

♟️ PRO Chess League

♟️ The Youngest Chess Grandmasters In History

♟️ FIDE Top 100 Player Lists

• List of top players in Standard, Rapid and Blitz competition
• List of top players in Open, Women, Juniors and Girls categories

♟️ United States Chess Federation Top Player Lists

♟️ Wikipedia Chess Links

• List of World Chess Champions
• Comparison of top chess players throughout history
• List of female chess grandmasters
• FIDE world rankings
• List of chess players by peak FIDE rating
• List of FIDE chess world number ones

MATH LINKS

♟️ International Mathematical Union

• Fields Medal (IMU)
• Fields Medal (Wikipedia)

♟️ American Mathematical Society

♟️ Mathematical Association of America

• American Mathematics Competitions

♟️ International Mathematical Olympiad

• IMO Problems (in English with recent problems in various languages)
• IMO 1988 problem 6 and IMO 2017 problem 3 are notoriously difficult.
• International Mathematical Olympiad (Wikipedia)

♟️ Clay Mathematics Institute

• Millennium Prize Problems

♟️ Math and Science News Websites

MIT News | Mathematics

New York Times | Mathematics

Phys.org | Mathematics

Quanta Magazine | Mathematics

Science Daily | Mathematics

Science News | Mathematics

Scientific American | Mathematics

WIRED Magazine | Mathematics

Popular Mechanics | Mathematics

• The 10 Biggest Math Breakthroughs of 2019

♟️ Wikipedia Mathematics (links to all Wikipedia math pages)

• List of unsolved problems in mathematics
• The club picture is a rotating fractal tesseract.

♟️ On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences

• OEIS Sequence A000040 (prime numbers)
• OEIS Sequence A000045 (Fibonacci numbers)
• On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (Wikipedia)
• List of integer sequences (Wikipedia)

♟️ Doing Math With JavaScript

• Prime Factors Calculator
• Big Integer Calculator (100 or more digits)
• One googol is 10¹⁰⁰, which is 1 followed by 100 zeros.
• The largest prime number less than one googol is (10¹⁰⁰) – 797 = 9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999203.
• The smallest prime number greater than one googol is (10¹⁰⁰) + 267 = 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000267.

♟️ Prime number

• Mersenne prime
• In binary, a Mersenne number is a positive integer where every digit is a 1.
• Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search
• As of December 2020, the largest known prime number is (2^82,589,933) – 1. In binary, this number is represented by 82,589,933 consecutive ones.

Sieve of Eratosthenes

♟️ Set theory

• List of set theory topics
• Ordinal number
• Cardinal number

Ordinal numbers up to ω^ω

♟️ SAPAVIVA

The 100 Greatest Scientists

• 1. Isaac Newton
• 2. Leonhard Euler

The 50 Greatest Mathematicians

• 1. Leonhard Euler
• 2. Carl Friedrich Gauss

🎂 Math Birthdays

Isaac Newton (4 January 1643) | Calculus

Leonhard Euler (15 April 1707) | Euler's Identity

Carl Friedrich Gauss (30 April 1777)

William Rowan Hamilton (4 August 1805) | Quaternion

Karl Weierstrass (31 October 1815) | Weierstrass function

Bernhard Riemann (17 September 1826) | Riemann hypothesis

Georg Cantor (3 March 1845) | Set theory

Sofya Kovalevskaya (15 January 1850)

David Hilbert (23 January 1862) | Hilbert's Hotel

Ernst Zermelo (27 July 1871) | Zermelo's theorem (game theory) | Solving chess

Albert Einstein (14 March 1879) | Theory of relativity

Emmy Noether (23 March 1882)

Erwin Schrödinger (12 August 1887) | Schrödinger's cat

Srinivasa Ramanujan (22 December 1887)

Abraham Fraenkel (17 February 1891) | Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory

John von Neumann (28 December 1903) | Von Neumann universe

Kurt Gödel (28 April 1906) | Gödel's incompleteness theorems

Paul Cohen (2 April 1934) | Continuum hypothesis

Andrew Wiles (11 April 1953) | Fermat's Last Theorem

Terence Tao (17 July 1975) | Fields Medal

James Maynard (10 June 1987) | Fields Medal

♟️ Gödel, Escher, Bach is a Pulitzer Prize winning book by Douglas Hofstadter.

♟️ Infinity and the Mind by Rudy Rucker

• Free online browsing edition

Updated 6 January 2025

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