A Once-in-a-Century Proof: The Kakeya Conjecture

A simple question about a spinning needle has haunted mathematicians for more than a century. It led to the Kakeya conjecture ...

Christopher Columbus Never Tried to Prove the Earth Was Round. His True Goal Was Far More Ambitious.

Italian explorer Christopher Columbus embarked on a three-ship voyage in 1492 on behalf of the Spanish government.

When mathematics meets aesthetics: Tessellations as a precise tool for solving complex problems

In a recent study, mathematicians from Freie Universität Berlin have demonstrated that planar tiling, or tessellation, is ...
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Two American Teenage Girls May Have Cracked a 2,000-Year-Old Math Puzzle With a Stunning New Pythagoras Proof

For over two millennia, mathematicians agreed on one thing: you can’t use trigonometry to prove Pythagoras’ Theorem—because trigonometry is built on it. That logic, drilled into students and scholars ...
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Property Price Growth Slows In Wake Of Budget Fears

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