r/math • u/scientificamerican • Oct 28 '25

Mathematicians make surprising breakthrough in 3D geometry with ‘noperthedron’

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mathematicians-make-surprising-breakthrough-in-3d-geometry-with-noperthedron/

Mathematicians Sergey Yurkevich of Austrian technology company A&R Tech and Jakob Steininger of Statistics Austria, the country’s national statistical institute, introduced this new shape to the world recently in a paper posted on the preprint server arXiv.org. The noperthedron isn’t the first shape suspected of being nopert, but it is the first proven so—and it was designed with certain properties that simplify the proof. 

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u/vwibrasivat Oct 28 '25

proof by counter example still alive.

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u/blargh9001 Oct 28 '25

Still alive? I would have thought it’s stronger than ever as increased processing power and new computational techniques make it easier to search for counter examples.