Category HEGL Project

Braess’s Paradox as a Routing Problem

Written by Luca M. Tittel Motivation Braess’s Paradox is a phenomenon rarely witnessed in street-networks or even similar networks like power-networks or some mechanical Systems. It describes the occurrence of the overall flow of a network increasing while the ”capacity”…

Rolling Knots

Written by Leon-Josip Dzojic, Matilde Sciortino, and Pirmin Kupffer In the year 1980 M. H. Freedman conjectured that every generic smooth knot in three dimensional Euclidean space has a tritangent plane, i.e., a plane tangent to three distinct points. However,…

Planimeters

Written by Aaron Osburg Imagine you are planning your birthday party which will take place in Heidelberg Castle. You have a lot of friends, so you are not quite sure if the inner courtyard of the castle provides enough space…