Abaku Sets World Record as Longest-Running Online Multiplayer Arithmetic Game With a Shared Game State
The Czech educational game has remained publicly available online since May 18, 2009, surviving multiple platforms and generations of web technology while preserving its distinctive shared mathematical playing field. By Atlas Editorial Team 3 September 2026 • Prague [Czech Republic] More than two decades ago, Czech educator Vladimír Tesař began experimenting with a simple idea: what if people could learn to “read” numbers the way they read words? He would see a number such
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Ten-Year-Old Aariana Gawande Turned a Student’s View of Mathematics into a World Record
The young author’s 130-page guide to Vedic Mathematics grew from a simple desire to help classmates see difficult problems differently By Atlas Editorial Team 12 August 2026 • Carlisle, Massachusetts [USA] Aariana Gulhane Gawande did not begin writing a book because she wanted to set a world record. She began because her classmates kept encountering mathematics problems she knew how to solve—and she wanted to share the methods that had helped her. What started as explanatio
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