This is how scientists cut pizza and it will make you crazy

Scientists make us wonder with our strange research.

An old question that can make many people argue, is how to cut the pizza into equal parts. And it seems that this question also makes mathematicians a headache to find a solution.

Scientists have found the perfect answer for dividing a pizza into equal parts.

Two mathematicians Joel Haddley and Stephen Worsley at the University of Liverpool, England believe they have found the perfect answer for dividing a pizza into equal parts, in many ways. It is really quite complicated and headache, even causing dizziness for those who are not good at geometry.

These two mathematicians call these monohedral plates , because they look like a marble slab with a complex pattern.

Start by dividing pizza pieces into 6 equal parts.

You will need to start by dividing the pizza into 6 parts with 3 special sub-lines, but I can't tell which function they are drawn based on. And it looks like this first step is quite complicated for us, but wait a bit because the next steps can make you more headache.

From a pizza that has been divided into 6 pieces, you can continue to divide it into 12 equal parts in many ways. That is, each piece of small triangle is made into two equal parts.

Next is to divide the small triangles into two equal parts.

This step is a little simpler, because you only need to cut from the top of the triangle to the midpoint of the opposite edge, whatever is the top vertex you can also divide this small triangle into two equal parts. And you will get the same result as the image above.

However, 12 equal pizzas are still not enough for mathematicians, they even want to divide it into 20, 24, 28 or 36 equal pieces. Although I don't understand how they will divide it to distribute pizza to anyone.

Continue to split the inner triangles to get more equal pieces.

And the way to do it is to continue to divide each triangular piece, from 12 pizzas you can get 24 pieces of pizza of equal size.

But that's not the most complicated and crazy way of dividing. Let's take a look at the two pictures below and it's really more like a hallucinogenic image than how an ordinary person would cut a pizza.

And this is how mathematicians cut pizza.