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  • Can you glue opposite edges of a square? Relativity 7

    Can you glue opposite edges of a square? Relativity 7

    This is a conundrum that many of the greatest mathematicians couldn’t figure out. While John Nash did answer yes – by proving the wonderful Nash isometric embedding theorems – he couldn’t say how. After 160 years of research, the Hévéa project finally did it! And it is spectacularly beautiful!

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