This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Annalisa Crannell goes to art museums with ...
About a decade ago Tonan Kamata, now a mathematician at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), stood mesmerized in front of a math museum’s origamilike exhibit. It featured a ...
A new proof breaks a decades-long drought of progress on the problem of estimating the size of triangles created by cramming points into a square. Consider a square with a bunch of points inside. Take ...