“Cutting a Pancake with an Exotic Knife” might seem an unusual title for a piece of academic research. But that was the focus of the paper posted online recently by two mathematicians. The ...

If my 5-year-old daughter had her way, she would eat homemade pancakes every morning. But flipping a pile of from-scratch flapjacks on a busy weekday is not a reality in my home. (And try as I might, ...