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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://wandering.shop/users/adapalmer/statuses/115503832371321306">Ada Palmer (adapalmer@wandering.shop)'s status on Friday, 07-Nov-2025 07:42:24 JST</a><a href="https://wandering.shop/@adapalmer" title="adapalmer@wandering.shop"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/28756-48-20231229054252.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Ada Palmer" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Ada Palmer</a></section><article><p>Two young mathematicians just broke a 330-year-old geometry riddle. Jakob Steininger, 30, and Sergey Yurkevich, 29, friends since maths-Olympiad days, have discovered the first known shape that can’t pass through a copy of itself, overturning a belief dating back to Prince Rupert’s 17th-century bet. A delightfully nerdy milestone that closes a 330-year chapter in geometry’s history. Quanta Magazine <a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org/first-shape-found-that-cant-pass-through-itself-20251024/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email" rel="nofollow">https://www.quantamagazine.org/first-shape-found-that-cant-pass-through-itself-20251024/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email</a><br><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/ShareGoodNewsToo" rel="tag">#ShareGoodNewsToo</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/5838171#notice-11465746">In conversation</a><time datetime="2025-11-07T07:42:24+09:00" title="Friday, 07-Nov-2025 07:42:24 JST">about a month ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://wandering.shop/@adapalmer/115503832371321306" rel="external" title="Sent from wandering.shop via ActivityPub">wandering.shop</a></span></span><a href="https://wandering.shop/@adapalmer/115503832371321306">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: www.quantamagazine.org</div><h5><a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org/first-shape-found-that-cant-pass-through-itself-20251024/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email">First Shape Found That Can’t Pass Through Itself</a></h5><div> from <span>Erica Klarreich</span></div></header><div>After more than three centuries, a geometry problem that originated with a royal bet has been solved.</div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Ada Palmer (adapalmer@wandering.shop)'s status on Friday, 07-Nov-2025 07:42:24 JST Ada Palmer
Two young mathematicians just broke a 330-year-old geometry riddle. Jakob Steininger, 30, and Sergey Yurkevich, 29, friends since maths-Olympiad days, have discovered the first known shape that can’t pass through a copy of itself, overturning a belief dating back to Prince Rupert’s 17th-century bet. A delightfully nerdy milestone that closes a 330-year chapter in geometry’s history. Quanta Magazine https://www.quantamagazine.org/first-shape-found-that-cant-pass-through-itself-20251024/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
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  After more than three centuries, a geometry problem that originated with a royal bet has been solved.

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