Ambiguity and its cousins, contradiction and paradox, are everywhere in mathematics, both in content and thinking. Strangely, the subject that appears to be the very paradigm of reason, and that is ...

A family sits on their stoop in the seaside village of Laukanu, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea.

The geopolitical landscape is volatile. Climate change and armed conflicts are wreaking destruction. The pace of inflation has confounded most everyone, including the experts tasked with anticipating ...

We human beings love to know what we’re doing. And why shouldn’t we? We are comforted by following clear road maps, by going directly from point A to point B, and from having unambiguous answers at ...

Ambiguity is an inseparable part of most workplaces. Tasks can be poorly defined or have many different solutions. Colleagues and managers send mixed messages or seem to say one thing and mean another ...

There is a lot of war talk in the air in Washington. The frequency of China’s navy and air force activities around Taiwan has increased of late. Politicians, officials, pundits, and experts in the ...