Think of a square dotted with points. Now imagine the smallest triangle that could be made by connecting three of those points. That's the Heilbronn triangle problem in a nutshell. "The problem is very easy to state and can sound frivolous," says Cosmin Pohoata, a theoretical mathematician and Emory assistant professor of mathematics. "When I have conversations with non-math friends, they often ask me why we should study problems like this. The beauty of them is that they are often more complex than they seem.

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