{"id":90197,"date":"2019-05-02T08:23:50","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T15:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/6-deceptively-simple-maths-problems-that-no-one-can-solve"},"modified":"2019-05-02T08:23:50","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T15:23:50","slug":"6-deceptively-simple-maths-problems-that-no-one-can-solve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/6-deceptively-simple-maths-problems-that-no-one-can-solve","title":{"rendered":"6 Deceptively Simple Maths Problems That No One Can Solve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/6-deceptively-simple-maths-problems-that-no-one-can-solve2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We all know that maths is really hard. So hard, in fact, that there\u2019s literally a whole Wikipedia page dedicated to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_unsolved_problems_in_mathematics#Millennium_Prize_Problems\">unsolved mathematical problems<\/a>, despite some of the greatest minds in the world working on them around the clock.<\/p>\n<p>But as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/science\/g2816\/5-simple-math-problems\/\">Avery Thompson points out at <em>Popular Mechanics<\/em><\/a><em>,<\/em> from the outset at least, some of these problems seem surprisingly simple \u2014 so simple, in fact, that anyone with some basic maths knowledge can understand them\u2026 including us. Unfortunately, it turns out that proving them is a little harder.<\/p>\n<p>Inspired by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/science\/g2816\/5-simple-math-problems\/\">Thompson\u2019s list<\/a>, we\u2019ve come up with our own list of deceptively simple maths problems to frustrate (and hopefully inspire) you.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/6-simple-maths-problem-that-no-one-can-solve\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all know that maths is really hard. So hard, in fact, that there\u2019s literally a whole Wikipedia page dedicated to unsolved mathematical problems, despite some of the greatest minds in the world working on them around the clock. But as Avery Thompson points out at Popular Mechanics, from the outset at least, some of [\u2026]<\/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-90197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90197","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=90197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}