{"id":210533,"date":"2025-04-04T06:24:05","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T11:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/descartes-unfinished-mystery-mathematicians-solve-380-year-old-geometry-problem"},"modified":"2025-04-04T06:24:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T11:24:05","slug":"descartes-unfinished-mystery-mathematicians-solve-380-year-old-geometry-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/descartes-unfinished-mystery-mathematicians-solve-380-year-old-geometry-problem","title":{"rendered":"Descartes\u2019 Unfinished Mystery: Mathematicians Solve 380-Year-Old Geometry Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/descartes-unfinished-mystery-mathematicians-solve-380-year-old-geometry-problem.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Monash University researchers have extended Descartes\u2019 Circle Theorem by finding a general equation for any number of tangent circles, using advanced mathematical tools inspired by physics. A centuries-old geometric puzzle dating back to the 17th century has finally been solved by mathematicians<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monash University researchers have extended Descartes\u2019 Circle Theorem by finding a general equation for any number of tangent circles, using advanced mathematical tools inspired by physics. A centuries-old geometric puzzle dating back to the 17th century has finally been solved by mathematicians<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,2229,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-mathematics","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210533","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=210533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}