{"id":187241,"date":"2024-04-12T06:22:42","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T11:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/this-math-problem-stumped-scientists-for-almost-a-century-two-mathematicians-have-finally-solved-it"},"modified":"2024-04-12T06:22:42","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T11:22:42","slug":"this-math-problem-stumped-scientists-for-almost-a-century-two-mathematicians-have-finally-solved-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/this-math-problem-stumped-scientists-for-almost-a-century-two-mathematicians-have-finally-solved-it","title":{"rendered":"This Math Problem Stumped Scientists for Almost a Century \u2014 Two Mathematicians Have Finally Solved It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-math-problem-stumped-scientists-for-almost-a-century-two-mathematicians-have-finally-solved-it2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve all been there: staring at a math test with a problem that seems impossible to solve. What if finding the solution to a problem took almost a century? For mathematicians who dabble in Ramsey theory, this is very much the case. In fact, little progress had been made in solving Ramsey problems since the 1930s.<\/p>\n<p>Now, University of California San Diego researchers Jacques Verstraete and Sam Mattheus have found the answer to r(4,t), a longstanding Ramsey problem that has perplexed the math world for decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve all been there: staring at a math test with a problem that seems impossible to solve. What if finding the solution to a problem took almost a century? For mathematicians who dabble in Ramsey theory, this is very much the case. In fact, little progress had been made in solving Ramsey problems since the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187241","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}