In 2011 an anonymous poster on the now infamously controversial image board 4chan posed a mathematical puzzle about the cult classic anime series The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. Though the ...

The user was just trying to figure out the most efficient way to watch episodes of a nonlinear anime series, but the result has generated considerable interest from mathematicians around the world ...

A mathematical puzzle solved by an anonymous anime fans has led to an unexpected breakthrough in combinatorial mathematics, ...

While a single answer still eludes us, mathematicians were at least able to figure out the upper and lower limits of the anime superpermutation. Spoiler alert: that would be a ton of binge-watching.

With the power of anime on their side, and a quite literal god in Haruhi Suzumiya, now the world of math is helped along with a solution found in the strangest of places. Mathematicians didn’t ...