Many of us may be unaware of this, but mathematics is a dynamic discipline that can change over time, said Jennifer Taback in her inaugural lecture as the Isaac Henry Wing Professor of Mathematics, ...
The following is an excerpt from The Gravity of Math: How Geometry Rules the Universe by Steve Nadis and Shing-Tung Yau. Copyright 2024. Available from Basic Books ...
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 ...
Mathematicians often comment on the beauty of their chosen discipline. For the non-mathematicians among us, that can be hard to visualise. But in Prof Caroline Series’s field of hyperbolic geometry, ...
Symplectic geometry is a relatively new field with implications for much of modern mathematics. Here’s what it’s all about. In the early 1800s, William Rowan Hamilton discovered a new kind of ...
The MMGs has a broad variety of advanced lectures, seminars and courses on recent and fundamental research topics to broaden the horizon regarding neighboring mathematical fields. In addition to this, ...
Geometry: Plane and Fancy is a tour of aspects of geometry that students are unlikely to have seen in a high school geometry course. I am interested in educational issues in mathematics, particularly ...
IN a recent number (NATURE, vol. xviii. p. 263) we took occasion to suggest that the usefulness of a school scientific society might still further be increased by calling in the assistance of ...
Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you
Show inaccessible results