Mathematics sometimes impacts our lives in seemingly unsuspecting ways, including card shuffling. Math can answer the age-old question of how many times a deck of cards needs to be shuffled to ensure ...

EXCLUSIVE: A simple deck of cards holds the key to solving a centuries-old royal murder mystery. That’s the intriguing premise of the documentary Lost in the Shuffle, which makes its world premiere ...

Poker couldn’t be played if not for playing cards, but as a player, ask yourself – how much do you really know about the 52-card deck you probably take for granted every day? Do you know the story of ...

A decades-old proof showed that seven shuffles are enough to mix up a deck of cards. But it requires you to cut the deck with the precision of a professional magician. A new proof gets around that ...