Math Art: Truth, Beauty, and Equations
I'm proud to announce that my book Math Art: Truth, Beauty, and Equations, will be published in April 2019 by Sterling. A…
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I'm proud to announce that my book Math Art: Truth, Beauty, and Equations, will be published in April 2019 by Sterling. A…
The fourth book of Euclid’s Elements, a 2,300-year-old geometry text, includes directions for constructing a 15-sided polygon inside a circle. The first…
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A typical performance by dancers Karl Schaffer and Erik Stern begins with a handshake. However, it’s not simple: the…
AT SOME point in their career every mathematician comes up against the question, is mathematics invented or discovered? The…
Erik-Jan Bos, a philosopher at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, unearthed research gold with an Internet search. In putting together…
The largest proof in mathematics is colossal in every dimension – from the 100-plus people needed to crack it to…