"I wanted to create a hands-on, visual aid to help users understand the connection between mathematics and geometry," said an ...
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 ...
In a bid to support students and enthusiasts in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) subjects, Google has unveiled new features for its Search and Lens tools. These updates aim to ...
When Alfred University Math Professor Amanda Lipnicki took up knitting as an undergraduate student, she didn’t immediately recognize how mathematics and geometry underlay the patterns of stitches ...
With its bright colors, easy-to-learn rules and familiar music, the video game Tetris has endured as a pop culture icon over the past 40 years. Many people, like me, have been playing the game for ...
After cracking an unsolvable mathematics problem last year, AI is back to tackle geometry. Developed by Google DeepMind, a new algorithm, AlphaGeometry, can crush problems from past International ...
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 ...