Marcus du Sautoy visits Fez, where the ancient Islamic school of wisdom was founded, and where Mahommed ben Musa al-Khwarizmi wrote his ‘lm al-jebr wa’l-muqabala’ calculation by restoration or ...
But as a mathematician at the University of Oxford, Tom’s instinct is always to translate the world around him into patterns and numbers—in other words, to turn mountains into math. Crawford: For me, ...
A new analysis of the brushstrokes and colors in Vincent van Gogh's famous painting Starry Night reveals a striking ...