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Dr Baek Jin Eon, 31, a research fellow at the Korea Institute for Advanced Study, has demonstrated that no shape larger than ...

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 ...

In a scene from the classic sitcom, "Friends," the characters Ross, Rachel and Chandler struggle to heft a new couch up the stairs of their apartment building. As they try to get the sofa around the ...

A Korean researcher who solved the “Moving Sofa Problem,” a mathematical challenge that had puzzled mathematicians for nearly ...

Most of us have struggled with the mathematical puzzle known as the "moving sofa problem." It poses a deceptively simple question: What is the largest sofa that can pivot around an L-shaped hallway ...

It's an exciting day: You've just signed the lease on a new apartment.There's only one problem. The hallway leading to your apartment has a sharp corner and your couch won't seem to make it, no matter ...

Twenty-five years too late to help Ross get his new couch into his apartment in "Friends," a mathematician has finally solved the pesky "sofa problem." The math problem delineates the largest-size ...