Researchers have demonstrated, using a novel approach, that the original solution to Dudeney’s famous dissection problem is indeed the optimal one. In 1907, English author and mathematician Henry Erne ...

Optical illusions trick our visual system into seeing things that aren’t actually there or misinterpreting what we observe.

A Japan-U.S. research team on March 10 offered a mathematical proof that "Dudeney's dissection," a challenge to cut an ...

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Math enthusiasts around the world, from college students to rocket scientists, celebrate Pi Day, which is March 14 or 3/14 - ...

When a fan of a cult anime series wanted to watch its episodes in every possible order, they asked a question that had ...

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Prove that the number of dots with an odd number of lines that connect them is even. Show puzzle solution Because two people are involved in every handshake, if we add up the number of handshakes ...

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though, most of them can forget about being crowned champions this season. In fact, the number of teams with a genuine chance to win the title is down to just three.

The ocean was a home, but in school, Llabrés preferred physics and math. In Barcelona for college ... It can be seen as an optimization problem: What’s the minimum number of variables needed to ...