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 with fewer pieces is impossible. Their result was posted to the server ...

The word “algorithm” can sometimes seem like a word designed to scare people away from math classes ... or to take the square root. Each operation is performed by sliding markers around ...