by Kanika Khanna — Have you ever won­dered how to slice a cake in equal pro­por­tions for a large party? Hugo Stein­haus, a fa­mous Pol­ish math­e­mati­cian in­tro­duced a math­e­mat­i­cal way to deal with the fair cake-cut­ting prob­lem af­ter the sec­ond world war. He pos­si­bly used cakes as an ab­stract rep­re­sen­ta­tion of the lim­ited...