Western Civilization has brought great advances in culture and economics, yet no one is more relentless in trying to destroy ...

From Mozart and Dostoyevsky to Jackson Pollock — two books reveal the fundamental and sometimes surprising intertwining of ...

Greek geometry wasn’t just math—it was an attempt to decode the universe. Its logic still powers rockets, bridges, and every GPS route today.

How Trigonometry Shapes the World,” Matt Parker recounts, for instance, how computers were a “game-changer in the field of ...

IN a recent number of NATURE (June 30) there appeared a review of a book by G. Mannoury on the philosophy of mathematics, and the reviewer emphasised a statement of the author to the effect that ...

This book is not designed to be a standard text. As will be seen from the introduction, the material covered is not usually included in the curriculum, and its style is more suitable for browsing than ...

In the vast world of geometry and art, there are figures that challenge our perception and understanding of space. One of these figures is the Penrose Triangle, also known as the Tribar. This object, ...

Rather than an advanced topic in mathematics, we conceptualized and taught projective geometry as a simplified version of Euclidean geometry wherein ideas pertaining to measurement were effectively ...

So, around 1813, he developed what he initially called Anti-Euclidean Geometry, then Astral Geometry and, finally, Non-Euclidean Geometry. He was so convinced about the existence of this new Geometry ...

IT is interesting to compare the attitudes of the two most recent writers in English who deal with Euclidean geometry. Sir Thomas Heath, in the second edition of his three-volume translation of ...

I mean, it is called Temple "Square" for a reason, after all. However, this is not the only way geometry pops up while cruising around Salt Lake. Whether it's the hyperbolic triangles of a sun shade ...