It’s also an incredibly elegant problem from a mathematical perspective.” As Quanta Magazine notes , in the 1960s an algorithm was created that could divide up a cake between three players ...

Over the past 50 years, many mathematicians and computer scientists, including Procaccia, had convinced themselves that there was probably no bounded, envy-free algorithm for dividing cake among n ...

Solving this problem for two people is simple and is at least as old as the Bible, where Lot and Abraham divided the lands of Canaan (Genesis 13). One person cuts the cake into what they perceive ...