Mathematicians struggled to find the fewest number of pieces needed to cut an equilateral triangle and rearrange it into a ...

Now, more than 122 years after it was first proposed, Kamata and two other mathematicians have finally proved that a solution ...

This week’s puzzle revisits the record player. What distance does the stylus, or needle, travel along an LP disc?

Prime magic squares. Set by Peter Rowlett. A magic square is an arrangement of numbers where all rows, columns and diagonals ...

TOKYO -- A Japan-U.S. research team on March 10 offered a mathematical proof that "Dudeney's dissection," a challenge to cut an equilateral triangle and use the parts to create a square with the ...

Players can customize their protagonist Henry in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2. A player hilariously transformed Henry into a medieval Hulk Hogan, sparking "Henrymania" in Bohemia. A Kingdom Come ...

Mathematicians have proven that Henry Dudeney’s 1907 four-piece dissection of an equilateral triangle into a square is optimal. Using matching diagrams, researchers from JAIST and MIT showed that no ...

In 1907, the English author and mathematician Henry Ernest Dudeney posed a puzzle: Can any equilateral triangle be cut into as few pieces as possible that will fit together to form a perfect square?

Over 120 years ago, Henry Ernest Dudeney posed the famous dissection problem of transforming a triangle into a square by cutting it into as few pieces as possible. In a new study, researchers have ...

Ishikawa, Japan-- In 1907, the English author and mathematician Henry Ernest Dudeney posed a puzzle: Can any equilateral triangle be cut into as few pieces as possible that will fit together to ...