A 31-year-old Korean mathematician solved one of the oldest math puzzles and was recognized as one of Scientific American’s ...

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 ...

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