A 31-year-old Korean mathematician solved one of the oldest math puzzles and was recognized as one of Scientific American’s ...
Dr Baek Jin Eon, 31, a research fellow at the Korea Institute for Advanced Study, has demonstrated that no shape larger than ...
A Korean researcher who solved the "Moving Sofa Problem," a mathematical challenge that had puzzled mathematicians for nearly ...
For those who have wrestled a bulky couch around a tight corner and lamented, “Will this ever get through?” mathematicians have heard your pleas. Geometry’s “moving sofa problem” asks for the largest ...
What is the largest sofa that you can squeeze around the corner of a hallway? A horseshoe-shaped piece of furniture known as Gerver’s sofa has officially taken the crown, solving a mathematical ...