A New Proof Moves the Needle on a Sticky Geometry Problem
[ad_1] The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.In 1917, the Japanese mathematician Sōichi Kakeya posed what at...
‘Nasty’ Geometry Breaks a Decades-Old Tiling Conjecture
[ad_1] One of the oldest and simplest problems in geometry has caught mathematicians off guard—and not for the first time.Since...
A Father-Son Team Solves a Geometry Problem With Infinite Folds
[ad_1] After their 2015 success, the researchers set out to use their flattening technique to address all finite polyhedra. This...
The Crooked, Complex Geometry of Round Trips
[ad_1] Have you ever wondered what life would be like if Earth weren’t shaped like a sphere? We take for...
In Lockdown, Mathematicians Crack a Stubborn Geometry Riddle
[ad_1] In mid-March, the mathematicians Joshua Greene and Andrew Lobb found themselves in the same situation: locked down and struggling...
