Researchers Break a 150-Year-Old Math Law With a Surprising Donut Discovery

A 150-year-old geometry rule has been overturned after mathematicians found two different torus surfaces with identical ...

Analysis finds geometric thinking may come from wandering, not a human-only math module

Debates over how geometry is understood and learned date back at least to the days of Plato, with more recent scholars ...
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Geometry in Our Modern World

Geometry may be one of the oldest branches of mathematics, but it’s much more than a theoretical subject. It’s part of our everyday lives, says Professor Jennifer Taback, and key to understanding many ...
PBS

Shapes that are the Same

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The New York Times

‘Shape’ Makes Geometry Entertaining. Really, It Does.

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. “Girls can’t do Euclid: can they, sir?” “The Mill on the Floss” contains one of George Eliot’s ...
Quanta Magazine

New Math Revives Geometry’s Oldest Problems

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 ...