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How Gaussian Curvature Is Responsible for the Remarkable Way People Eat Pizza

  • Glen TickleGlen Tickle
  • June 21, 2016

Folding a slice of pizza keeps the food rigid and easier to eat, and astronomer Clifford Stoll explains why in a recent episode of Numberphile. The reason has to do with Gaussian curvature and Carl Friedrich Gauss‘s Theorema Egregium (“Remarkable Theorem”).

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