{"id":109329,"date":"2020-06-29T21:24:59","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T04:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/two-mathematicians-just-solved-a-century-old-geometry-problem"},"modified":"2020-06-29T21:24:59","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T04:24:59","slug":"two-mathematicians-just-solved-a-century-old-geometry-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/two-mathematicians-just-solved-a-century-old-geometry-problem","title":{"rendered":"Two Mathematicians Just Solved a Century-Old Geometry Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AmgkSdhK4K8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In 1911, German mathematician Otto Toeplitz first posed the inscribed square problem, in which he predicted that \u201cany closed curve contains four points that can be connected to form a square,\u201d <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.quantamagazine.org\/new-geometric-perspective-cracks-old-problem-about-rectangles-20200625\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.quantamagazine.org\/new-geometric-perspective-cracks-old-problem-about-rectangles-20200625\/\">according to <em>Quanta<\/em><\/a>. For more than a century, it\u2019s <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/science\/math\/g29251596\/impossible-math-problems\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/science\/math\/g29251596\/impossible-math-problems\/\">remained unsolved<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1911, German mathematician Otto Toeplitz first posed the inscribed square problem, in which he predicted that \u201cany closed curve contains four points that can be connected to form a square,\u201d according to Quanta. For more than a century, it\u2019s remained unsolved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}