Mathematicians have broken through a long-standing barrier in the study of “minimizing surfaces,” which play an important ...
The earliest known evidence for the Pythagorean Theorem comes from an ancient clay tablet called, “IM 67118.” This tablet uses the theorem to determine the length of a diagonal within a rectangle, and ...
Long before screens and styluses, entertainment came in the form of folded paper. One square. No cuts. No glue. Just folds. That’s all it took to create animals ...
The ESA's Euclid space telescope has been in space for just over a year, investigating some of the deepest mysteries of the ...
In an era driven by complex data, scientists are increasingly encountering information that doesn't lie neatly on flat, ...
The Euclid telescope launched in 2023, hitching a ride on SpaceX's Falcon 9 to study the cosmos from the Sun-Earth Lagrange point 2, 1.5 million kilometers (932,000 miles) from Earth. Its job is a big ...
In 2024, an AI entered the fray of the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO). Google’s AlphaProof is part of the same ...
Topology has real implications in the world. For example, topological techniques can be brought to bear on calculating the trajectories of spacecraft, and missions have been saved by the efforts of ...
THIS is the fourth edition of a book which has been received with warm approval by English and Continental geometers. The first eight sections present no notable changes from the corresponding ...