Cut A Better Slice Of Pizza With Math
Friday, January 8, 2016 - 12:30
in Mathematics & Economics
kattebelletje via Flickr, licensed under Creative Commons A pizza waiting to be sliced Math can teach us a lot about how to better eat pizza. In 2013, a mathematician named Eugenia Cheng determined the formula for the perfect pizza size. And then for the best way of shoveling that perfect pie into your mouth (folded, obviously), you can turn to a 19th century mathematician. But what about that step in between making the pizza and eating it? You know, cutting it into the perfect (or at least visually interesting) slice. Well, math is here to help again. Diagram from arXiv paper Twelve monohedral slices New Scientist writes about the research done by Joel Haddley and Stephen Worsley at the...