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 ...
A mathematician at Yonsei University, in Korea, claims to have solved the moving sofa problem. Jineon Baek has posted a 100+-page proof of the problem on the arXiv preprint server. Most people who ...
24-year-old founder and CEO Carina Hong created Axiom Math in March 2025 and has recruited a team of ten employees, most of whom are from Meta, to build a math-focused AI model. Last fall, Carina Hong ...
Organizational strategies that help students break complex word problems into manageable chunks may be the key to solving them, according to a 2025 study.