It's a quiet evening in 1975 in San Diego. Dinner is done, dishes are stacked, and the house hums with the leftover noise of a family of seven. At the kitchen table, a mother of five spreads out a few sheets of paper, a pencil, and a ruler. Her children think she's doodling again. Her husband reads the paper. Outside, the California night deepens.
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But Marjorie Rice isn't doodling.
She's solving a geometry problem that has baffled mathematicians for almost sixty years.
THE PROBLEM THAT REFUSED TO BE SOLVED
Earlier that month, she had flipped through Scientific American and
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