Over the years, mathematicians have made some pretty important contributions to our lives, ranging from Pythagoras’s geometric calculations to John Nash’s game theory. Now, scientists have finally turned their attention to one of life’s truly big questions: What’s the best way to cut a pizza?
This is not, in fact, the first time that the issue has been broached, with L.J. Upton having first developed a so-called Pizza Theorem back in the 1960s. As the name suggests, the model he developed provided a means of dividing a pizza-shape (otherwise known as a circle) into equal segments.
However, a group of Italian cuisine-loving mathematicians at Liverpool University have now taken this a step further, by calculating ever more complex and eye-catching ways to cut a pizza while still ensuring that each slice remains equal in area. To put that into math talk, they devised a system to create monohedral tilings on a planar disk.
via IFLScience
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