In 1978 Steve Fisk, a mathematics professor at Bowdoin College in Maine, US, came up with a proof—considered one of the most ...
This 180-sided object cannot fit through another like it, no matter where you bore the hole or how you tilt it.
Physicists at the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD) in Hamburg have discovered a striking ...
The 'Noperthedron,' the new shape that has solved a 300-year-old mathematical mystery. Courtesy of Jisse Steininger and ...
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.” ...
Every summer, scores of tourists take to the bustling streets of Barcelona, a city known for its breathtaking architecture. Nicolás Atanes Santos, a young Spanish mathematician, sees this as an ...
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 study aimed to identify the errors made by tenth-grade students while working on the Pythagorean Theorem and analyze the factors contributing to these errors. The selected sample was the ...
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1994, an earthquake of a proof shook up the mathematical world. The mathematician Andrew Wiles had finally settled Fermat’s Last ...
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