A human has outkissed one of Google’s superpowered artificial intelligence systems. The achievement isn’t in the realm of ...

The moving sofa problem, which deals with the math of how shapes can fit around corners, may have been solved by a Korean mathematician. UC Davis mathematician Dan Romik has made a study of the ...

Mathematicians have long wondered how “shapes of constant width” behave in higher dimensions. A surprisingly simple construction has given them an answer. In 1986, after the space shuttle Challenger ...

In a recent study, mathematicians from Freie Universität Berlin have demonstrated that planar tiling, or tessellation, is much more than a way to create a pretty pattern. Consisting of a surface ...

Mathematicians are “reinventing the wheel” by giving it a new shape. Their newly imagined wheel looks like a many-dimensional guitar pick, and it could theoretically roll in ways beyond our ...

Creative thinking benefits were smaller and more uneven. While AI users sometimes excelled in defining problems or ...

The research addressing two-dimensional (2D) irregular shape packing has largely focused on the strip packing variant of the problem. However, it can be argued that this is a simplification. The ...