A 150-year-old geometry rule has been overturned after mathematicians found two different torus surfaces with identical metric and curvature.

Editor's Note: This article was provided by The Conversation UK. The original is here. The work of the Greek polymath Plato has kept millions of people busy for millennia. A few among them have been ...

Fractal geometry is a field of math born in the 1970s and mainly developed by Benoit Mandelbrot. If you’ve already heard of fractals, you’ve probably seen the picture above. It’s called the Mandelbrot ...

Debates over how geometry is understood and learned date back at least to the days of Plato, with more recent scholars concluding that only humans possess the foundations of this understanding.

How can the behavior of elementary particles and the structure of the entire universe be described using the same mathematical concepts? This question is at the heart of the recent work by ...

If you've ever struggled to pack a bunch of suitcases into the trunk of your car, you've got some idea of a basic problem in materials science: if you throw a bunch of atoms or molecules together, how ...

Interior designers reveal how geometry and mathematical principles like the golden ratio are the secret to beautiful home ...