For shapes in 3D space ... It turns out such a construction is impossible. Modern math students learn the angle trisection problem—and how to prove it’s not possible—in their Galois Theory ...

I’ll be the first to admit that math isn’t my strongest subject ... I thought I would be able to figure out the ‘impossible’ year two maths question that’s doing the rounds on the ...

“When we looked at the shapes of the lines we constructed ... Experts Thought This Math Problem Was Impossible.

Mathematicians have been searching → In 1961, the mathematician Hao Wang proposed that such aperiodic tilings were impossible ... and then a set of just 104 shapes. The game was on: How few ...

Crows are able to look at a handful of four-sided shapes and correctly distinguish ... are designed to tease out how much they know about math. For this study, the birds would look at a computer ...

New Orleans students Calcea Johnson and Ne'Kiya Jackson presented their discovery at a recent math conference, where they were the only high schoolers. Two New Orleans-based teenagers have cracked ...