A math instructor at Washington State University’s Vancouver branch campus was part of the 40-member team that, in January, won one of the puzzle-solving world’s most prestigious prizes.

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The world’s oldest collection of math puzzles had seen better days. In 1865, the British Museum received a brittle and breaking scroll of papyrus that was well over 3,000 years old.