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“Moon Corona, Halo, and Arcs over Manitoba” by Brent Mckean

The figurative yet audible sound of the world around me, while awake and moving along, somehow halts me. Its in the wee-hours of the night when everything is quiet and that city humming has died down — yet faintly remains like some sort of cosmic relic radiation — that I get the chance to reflect. It is the moment where I can guage myself, where I am and where I want to go. I try to analyze my outcomes and set forth plans. However, all of those thoughts seem to blow away like paper on a desk by the motion of a blowing fan. A fan that doubles as a pendulum as it moves ever closer to morning and the awakening of the world that halts me; hoping I get the chance to reflect once more and take a step towards my happiness.

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If one remembers this particular episode from the popular sitcom ‘Friends’ where Ross is trying to carry a sofa to his apartment, it seems that moving a sofa up the stairs is ridiculously hard.

But life shouldn’t be that hard now should it?

The mathematician Leo Moser posed in 1966 the following curious mathematical problem: what is the shape of largest area in the plane that can be moved around a right-angled corner in a two-dimensional hallway of width 1? This question became known as the moving sofa problem, and is still unsolved fifty years after it was first asked.

The most common shape to move around a tight right angled corner is a square.

And another common shape that would satisfy this criterion is a semi-circle.

But what is the largest area that can be moved around?

Well, it has been conjectured that the shape with the largest area that one can move around a corner is known as “Gerver’s sofa”. And it looks like so:

Wait.. Hang on a second

This sofa would only be effective for right handed turns. One can clearly see that if we have to turn left somewhere we would be kind of in a tough spot.

Prof.Romik from the University of California, Davis has proposed this shape popularly know as Romik’s ambidextrous sofa that solves this problem.

Although Prof.Romik’s sofa may/may not be the not the optimal solution, it is definitely is a breakthrough since this can pave the way for more complex ideas in mathematical analysis and more importantly sofa design.