[QuantaMag] New geometric perspective cracks old problem about rectangles and curves.

[VirtualLarry]

New Geometric Perspective Cracks Old Problem About Rectangles

While locked down due to COVID-19, Joshua Greene and Andrew Lobb figured out how to prove a version of the “rectangular peg problem.”

www.quantamagazine.org

I found this interesting, if slightly hard to follow at times.

 

[StefanR5R]

There seems to be an important lesson for life in it:
When you find yourself in a bind, try to look at it from the perspective of four-dimensional symplectic geometry.

;-)

 

[Orange Kid]

Very interesting. The way they out line it it seems so simple but yet...not so much.
Sometimes we look to hard to find the answer.