Researchers uncover the mathematical structure behind mesmerizing tiling patterns, linking their visual appeal to the ...

Ethan Hawke has likened the process of making a horror movie to solving a "geometry problem," noting a considerable amount of math goes into it. In an interview with /Film, Hawke spoke of the horror ...

The textbook uses examples from Indian monuments and cultural contexts to explain key concepts of the subject, including ...

In the mid-19th century, Bernhard Riemann conceived of a new way to think about mathematical spaces, providing the foundation ...

The most important theorem we learnt in childhood carries the name of a Greek philosopher, but not necessarily the legacy.

Dive into one of the most wicked geometry problems and see it explained step by step in a clear, intuitive way. This lesson breaks down the hidden structure, key insights, and clever reasoning that ...

Mathematicians present the Nopertedro: a Rupert property solid that broke an old myth by preventing one copy from passing through another.

A BBC article delves into this angle of the story, asking how many cameras are needed to provide comprehensive coverage of a space—even one with a complicated floor plan. An excerpt: By dividing the ...

In the third century BCE, Apollonius of Perga asked how many circles one could draw that would touch three given circles at exactly one point each. It would take 1,800 years to prove the answer: eight ...

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