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In a recent study, mathematicians from Freie Universität Berlin have demonstrated that planar tiling, or tessellation, is ...

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Geometry boasts a rich and captivating history within the realm of mathematics. In its early development, it was deeply rooted in practical observation used to describe essential concepts such as ...

The Pythagorean Cup, an invention from ancient Greece, shows that Greek heads weren’t in the intellectual clouds all the time. Credit: Alessiomela/CC By SA 4.0 The Pythagorean Cup, an invention of the ...

Discusses the properties and types of triangles, explaining that a triangle is a closed figure with three sides and angles. It categorizes triangles into equilateral, isosceles, scalene, obtuse, right ...

How do astronomers describe the shape of the universe, and what could it mean for the fate of the cosmos? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...

In the 1930s, a mathematician by the name of Nicolas Bourbaki was said to frequent the Café Capoulade in Paris, a haven for artists and intellectuals near Luxembourg Gardens. There he wrote an ...

IN a recent number of NATURE (June 30) there appeared a review of a book by G. Mannoury on the philosophy of mathematics, and the reviewer emphasised a statement of the author to the effect that the ...

EscherSketch: an experiment in creating tilings of the hyperbolic plane from Euclidean triangles, similar to Escher's Circle Limit series.