In the early 1930s a group of bright university students held gatherings in Budapest to discuss math. Among them was Paul Erd?s, an eccentric prodigy who would go on to become the most prolific mathematician in history. Other attendees included mathematicians George Szekeres and Esther Klein. One day Klein presented a puzzle to her friends: a deceptively simple question about dots scattered across a page. Unbeknownst to them, the puzzle would help launch a profound branch of modern math about order among chaos and spark a romance that would last the rest of Klein’s life.Here’s what Klein presented to her...