U.K. Mathematicians Show New Way to Slice a Pizza, and It's Not Easy
The research paper is title, "Infinite families of monohedral disk tilings."
— -- Some pizza lovers like their pie sliced in squares while others prefer a triangle slice, but a pair of mathematicians from the U.K. have presented a way to slice a pizza pie in an infinite number of different ways.
Joel Haddley and Stephen Worsley, of the University of Liverpool, presented their findings in a new paper whose title, “Infinite families of monohedral disk tilings,” does not sound like it refers to pizza at all.
The pair have taken the method of slicing known as “monohedral disc tiling” – which gives you 12 identically-shaped pieces, six with crust and six without – further by cutting curved triangle shapes across the pizza and then dividing those slices into two.
“Mathematically there is no limit whatsoever,” Haddley told New Scientist.
“I’ve no idea whether there are any applications at all to our work outside of pizza-cutting," Hadley said, adding the findings are "interesting mathematically, and you can produce some nice pictures."
Pizza lovers took to social media to weigh in on their thoughts related to the complexity of Haddley and Worsley's approach.
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