Boing Boing on MSNOpinion
Half a century of math mystery finally meets Baek Jin-eon
After almost sixty years of stumping progress in geometry, a Korean mathematician has cracked a problem that generations of ...
Computers are working to solve an age-old geometry problem. Humans can’t “square the circle” by hand, which was proven in the 1800s. Computer solutions involve infinity, complexity, and some ...
For all of the recent strides we’ve made in the math world—like a supercomputer finally solving the Sum of Three Cubes problem that puzzled mathematicians for 65 years—we’re forever crunching ...
The Chosun Ilbo on MSN
South Korean researcher solves 60-year-old moving sofa problem
A South Korean researcher who solved the ‘moving sofa problem,’ a mathematical puzzle that had remained unsolved for nearly ...
Some math problems have been challenging us for centuries, and while brain-busters like these hard math problems may seem impossible, someone is bound to solve ’em eventually. Well, maybe. For now, ...
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