AI may have helped solve an ancient puzzle. For his new book Josephus and Jesus: New Evidence for the One Called Christ, Dr. T. C. Schmidt used AI to test something long in dispute: what the first ...

Abstract: Image encryption is an efficient visual technology to protect private images. This paper develops an image encryption algorithm utilizing the principles of the Josephus problem and the ...

Deputy Editor Amanda Borschel-Dan is the host of The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, What Matters Now and The Reel Schmooze podcasts, and heads up The Times of Israel's features. For the first time ...

Puzzles completed in python to test my logical reasoning. The famous historical Josephus dilemma and the issue of the smallest substring ...

ABSTRACT: We define and study the Extended Feline Josephus Game, a game in which n players, each with ℓ lives, stand in a circle. The game proceeds by alternating between hitting k consecutive players ...

Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Williams College, Williamstown, MA, USA. The origins of the Josephus problem and its corresponding game can be traced back to 1st century AD. Named after ...

There are tens of thousands of pythons in the Florida wild, attacking animals and damaging ecosystems – and the quest to stop them has become a collective crusade On a Thursday afternoon in St ...

Life by the numbers How math may have saved an ancient Jewish historian In YouTube video, mathematician Daniel Erman from the University of Wisconsin-Madison explains how to solve the Josephus problem ...