Math Can, in Theory, Help You Escape a Hungry Bear
Our June Insights puzzle added a few twists to a classic puzzle made famous by Martin Gardner in his 1965 Scientific American column and later published in the book The Colossal Book of Short Puzzles and Problems. In our version, a swimmer at the center of a circular lake of radius 3.5 is attempting to escape a bear hunting him from the shore. The bear doesn’t swim but can run along the…
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