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Joseph O'Rourke

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16 votes

Tiling the plane with incongruent isosceles triangles

answered Oct 21, 2015 at 19:37

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Packing rectangles: Does rotation ever help?

answered Apr 27, 2019 at 19:16

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Minimal pizza cutting

answered Aug 6, 2020 at 23:14

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What's a great christmas present for someone with a PhD in Mathematics?

answered Dec 12, 2020 at 1:29

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Travelling Salesman Problem: Can the nearest neighbor algorithm be $n$ times longer than the optimal solution?

answered Jun 26, 2015 at 11:40

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Theorems demoted back to conjectures

answered Dec 20, 2016 at 1:26

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Undecidable easy arithmetical statement

answered Nov 8, 2017 at 0:18

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New grand projects in contemporary math

answered Jan 2, 2013 at 1:07

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Randomly switching street lights, in a square city

answered Jan 19, 2013 at 21:13

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When has pure mathematics been influenced by the social context of mathematicians?

answered Jul 1, 2012 at 14:06

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Given the vertices of a convex polytope, how can we construct its half-space representation?

answered Nov 15, 2012 at 1:10

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A geometric Ramsey problem

answered Jan 2, 2011 at 17:24

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Book recommendations on cellular automata?

answered Jun 23, 2010 at 11:37

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Light rays bouncing in twisted tubes

answered Jul 15, 2011 at 23:30

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Is there a combinatorial analogue of Ricci flow?

answered May 22, 2011 at 21:31

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What is the largest possible thirteenth kissing sphere?

answered Apr 21, 2012 at 16:42

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Examples of "miraculous" proofs

answered Jul 13, 2018 at 23:24

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Always a planar-drawn cycle through $n$ points

answered Dec 18, 2015 at 20:24

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Conway's lesser-known results

answered Apr 13, 2020 at 11:43

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What are possible applications of deep learning to research mathematics?

answered Apr 15, 2021 at 1:05

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What are possible applications of deep learning to research mathematics?

answered May 1, 2021 at 23:56

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Is the number of "breakthroughs" in mathematics decreasing, as it is claimed to be in other sciences?

answered Jan 22, 2023 at 13:53

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Examples of creative experiments by mathematicians in modern days

answered Feb 26, 2021 at 17:11

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Convex lattice polygons with equal area and perimeter

answered Mar 13, 2021 at 20:56

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The geometric median of a triangle

answered Jun 1, 2016 at 11:17

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Given a set of 2D vertices, how to create a minimum-area polygon which contains all the given vertices?

answered Jan 4, 2015 at 15:13

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Applications of cut locus structure theorems

answered May 24, 2017 at 19:20

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Area Enclosed by the Convex Hull of a Set of Random Points

answered Apr 4, 2012 at 12:25

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Convergence of finite element method: counterexamples

answered Sep 13, 2011 at 0:36

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Two commuting mappings in the disk

answered Jul 14, 2010 at 15:53

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