In "Mapmatics," a mathematician tells the stories of how math helps us track epidemics, map the seafloor, and plot a complex delivery route.

A simplification of this scheme leads to a tuning method – “just intonation” – that involves smaller ratios and is more ...

Today we turn away from killers and sociopathic rulers and look at two men from the world of science. Isaac Newton and Robert ...

OctopusEffects, #Blender In this tutorial I will talk about the Index note. The nature of index in Geometry Nodes. How to use the Index node in combination with math operations to affect the Selection ...

Deep inside caves, water dripping from the ceiling creates one of nature's most iconic formations: stalagmites. These pillars ...

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

The amplituhedron, a shape at the heart of particle physics, appears to be deeply connected to the mathematics of paper ...

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It responded that because the diagonal of a rectangle can't be used to double its size, there was no solution in geometry. However, visiting University of Cambridge scholar Nadav Marco from the Hebrew ...

U.S. employers and colleges are contending with more young people who are behind academically. Some are trying to make up where schools have failed. U.S. employers and colleges are contending with ...

Learning math is a deeply cognitive experience. But the strength of that learning is highly influenced by emotions. The brain systems we aim to recruit in education—attention, motivation, memory, and ...

The problem with an emissions reduction target, necessary though it is, is that its mere existence implies it is achievable and that if we do achieve it, we will be fine. New CSIRO modelling suggests ...