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 ...

Jenny Quinn, executive director of the Seattle Universal Math Museum, shows off a solved Fibonacci sequence puzzle. (GeekWire ...

A new study indicates that early experiences of environmental harshness, in combination with a child's temperament, can influence later problem-solving abilities. A new study indicates that early ...

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 ...

Strike a billiard ball on a frictionless table with no pockets so that it never stops bouncing off the table walls. If you returned years later, what would you find? Would the ball have settled into ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Research summary: Building on the problem-solving perspective, we study behaviors related to projects and the communication-based antecedents ...

In 1986 Belgian mathematician Jean Bourgain posed a seemingly simple question that continued to puzzle researchers for decades. No matter how you deform a convex shape—consider shaping a ball of clay ...

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 ...

Complex organizational problems and chaos are silent killers of productivity and innovation. In today’s fractured work environment, they are more prevalent than ever. Political transitions, ...