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 ...

In 1907, the English author and mathematician Henry Ernest Dudeney posed a puzzle: Can any equilateral triangle be cut into ...

Henry Ernest Dudeney posed the famous dissection problem of transforming a triangle into a square by cutting it into as few ...

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

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 ...