{"id":238170,"date":"2026-06-02T02:23:38","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T07:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/mathematician-solves-origami-donut-efficiency-challenge-with-fewest-folds"},"modified":"2026-06-02T02:23:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T07:23:38","slug":"mathematician-solves-origami-donut-efficiency-challenge-with-fewest-folds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/mathematician-solves-origami-donut-efficiency-challenge-with-fewest-folds","title":{"rendered":"Mathematician solves origami donut efficiency challenge with fewest folds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mathematician-solves-origami-donut-efficiency-challenge-with-fewest-folds2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Most people wouldn\u2019t think that it would take rigorous mathematical proof to show how many folds it takes to make a donut shape out of paper. Yet, no one could quite figure it out until recently.<\/p>\n<p>In a new paper, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/doi\/10.1073\/pnas.2523301123\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/i>, mathematician Richard Evan Schwartz provides detailed proof of where the line is drawn when it comes to the fewest folds required to construct a torus\u2014the proper name for the shape of a donut\u2014from a piece of paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most people wouldn\u2019t think that it would take rigorous mathematical proof to show how many folds it takes to make a donut shape out of paper. Yet, no one could quite figure it out until recently. In a new paper, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, mathematician Richard Evan Schwartz provides detailed [\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-238170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238170","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=238170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}