The oldest puzzle in history: Your brain will be fried as you try to figure out how to solve the “Archimedes Box”!

This scientist, who is known for his studies and discoveries in mathematics and geometry and other fields, the world’s oldest math puzzle He had designed a puzzle titled

It is quite striking with the shapes it contains and people are very confused about how to solve it can you solve this puzzle?

This puzzle of Greek origin, also known as “stomachion”, meaning stomach, was actually discovered by accident.

Archimedes Palimpsest (role of Archimedes) found in manuscript This tangram is the oldest known math puzzle. The reason for this chance discovery is that the manuscript, which is said to have been written by Archimedes, was found in the 13th century. recording in a prayer book and redesign.

For Palimpsest, meaning a manuscript prepared for reuse by scraping or erasing, the pages of the book had to be removed and the writings cleaned to be ready for use.

Then the pages of the new book were created by dividing them in half down the middle and laying them on their sides. It is also the world’s oldest math puzzle, On the last page of Archimedes’ scroll is located.

The German researcher Constantine Tischendorf suspected that the subtext of Palimpsest, used as a prayer book in the monastery, was a single work, and tore a page from this book to be examined by several experts.

There were issues like scraping, erasing and cutting in the lyrics. Fortunately, digital photography and infrared technology had evolved somewhat over the period, and this prayer book readable at an understandable level.

Also called the “Archimedes box”, this math puzzle is actually a 14 piece jigsaw puzzle.

The purpose of the stomach placed in a square is, how many different ways can 14 puzzle pieces be put together to make a square determine.

Although it is not known exactly how to play the game, it is estimated from Archimedes’ sentences in other sources how many different squares can be formed by using all the pieces in the tangram.

Researchers have worked hard to solve the puzzle, and in 2003 these efforts paid off in a way. Total with reflections and rotations to solve this puzzle 17,152 possible solutions was detected.

No one knows if Archimedes had considered the variety of possible answers.

But one thing is certain, and that is solving this puzzle. many different ways that is it.

Unfortunately, today it is not possible to see the original version of this puzzle with the naked eye.

To make the Archimedean box understandable ultraviolet light and various computer imaging techniques must use.

• Sources: Vanishing Magic, The Guardian, Math World