The Towers of Hanoi is a classic mathematical puzzle that consists of three rods and a number of disks of different sizes. The objective is to move all the disks from one rod to another, following specific rules: only one disk can be moved at a time, and a larger disk cannot be placed on top of a smaller disk. This puzzle was invented by the French mathematician Édouard Lucas in 1883. It is often used to teach concepts of recursion and algorithm design in computer science. The minimum number of moves required to solve the puzzle increases exponentially with the number of disks.