Mathematicians struggled to find the fewest number of pieces needed to cut an equilateral triangle and rearrange it into a ...

Back in the hazy olden days of the pre-2000s, navigating between two locations generally required someone to whip out a paper map and painstakingly figure out the most optimal route between those ...

Just as ice melts to water, graphs undergo phase transitions. Two mathematicians showed that they can pinpoint such transitions by examining only local structure. The Quanta Newsletter ...