A year ago, AlphaGeometry, an AI problem solver created by Google DeepMind, surprised the world by performing at the level of silver medallists in the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), a ...
Mathematicians have finally solved a geometry problem that has puzzled the field for decades. By wiggling a needle around while spinning it, you can minimize the amount of space it moves through, ...
Mathematicians have finally solved a geometry problem that has puzzled the field for decades. The question was proposed by Japanese mathematician Sōichi Kakeya in 1917. It sounds simple: How can you ...