This 180-sided object cannot fit through another like it, no matter where you bore the hole or how you tilt it.
A new book, Megalith, claims ancient Britons built Stonehenge “and other stone circles with a knowledge of Pythagoras' theorem, 2,000 years before the Greek philosopher formalized geometry.” ...
Dive into the thrilling world of Geometry Dash with our latest #shorts video, "Nine Circles: Original vs Layout." Discover the intriguing differences between the iconic original Nine Circles level and ...
Ask someone to name the most important physicist of the 20 th century, and they will almost certainly say Albert Einstein. Ask the same question about the field of mathematics, however, and you will ...
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 ...
Napoleon Bonaparte, First Consul. Work by Ingres. It was during this period that he came into contact with the theorems. Credit: Public domain / Wikimedia Commons His political stance allowed him to ...
This is an updated version of a story first published on Nov. 1, 2024 For centuries, students have learned that in a right triangle, the square of the hypotenuse equals the sum of the squares of the ...
This is an updated version of a story first published on May 5, 2024. For many high school students returning to class, it may seem like geometry and trigonometry were created by the Greeks as a form ...
Left, a 3-flower. Right, a 5-flower. Credit: Journal of Geometry and Physics, 10.1016/j.geomphys.2025.105458 Monash University researchers have extended Descartes’ Circle Theorem by finding a general ...