A new series for the Health and Science section aims to make complex topics easy to dissect, and maybe even help people ‘fall ...

It’s not a random choice, and in fact, the history of ice cubes is a lot (ahem) cooler than you probably think.

With the help of powerful computers, researchers discovered a four-sided shape that naturally rests on one side, and built a ...

Constant-width shapes were not initially on the agenda. Last year, the group was instead trying to answer a related question called the Borsuk problem, which had stumped prominent mathematicians for ...

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Scientists are using AI to build a “periodic table of shapes” filled with Fano varieties—the basic “atomic structure” of geometry.

Some 44 students, including the son of Vice President John C. Calhoun, were expelled from Yale in 1830, for refusing to take a geometry exam. Geometry occupies a peculiar place in the imagination.

The most famous ancient mathematician to study geometry is Euclid. He wrote a book around 2300 years ago that was still used to teach maths only a few hundred years ago.

Geometry is the study of how to use math to describe and investigate different points, lines and shapes. A very basic three-dimensional shape is the rectangular prism, which is the shape of a box ...

Mathematicians are creating their own version of the periodic table that will provide a vast directory of all the possible shapes in the universe across three, four and five dimensions, linking ...