Gender equality was supposed to reduce gender stratification and segregation in academic and professional pursuits. Instead, ...
More than a century after Srinivasa Ramanujan scribbled his astonishing formulas for π in notebooks in India and England, ...
The NCERT Class 8 math textbook reintroduces the Pythagorean Theorem as the Baudhayana-Pythagoras Theorem, honoring ancient ...
Often when describing patterns, they are placed in one of two categories: organic or geometric. Organic designs are ones ...
Archaeologists working in northern Mesopotamia say they have uncovered visual patterns that look a lot like structured ...
The Halafian culture of northern Mesopotamia arranged floral depictions on pottery with symmetry and numerical sequences, ...
The amplituhedron is a geometric shape with an almost mystical quality: Compute its volume, and you get the answer to a central calculation in physics about how particles interact. Now, a young ...
Prime numbers are sometimes called math’s “atoms” because they can be divided by only themselves and 1. For two millennia, mathematicians have wondered if the prime numbers are truly random, or if ...
Last year, onlookers observed a startling site on China’s Qiantang River: waves forming a grid-like pattern. Dubbed the “matrix tide,” this complex wave pattern was caused by the river’s famed tidal ...