On a Saturday afternoon in the fall of 2021, Silvio Decurtins was leafing through a paper with a title that could have been pulled from a comic book for mathematically inclined teens: “Plato’s Cube ...
Proving that two polygons have the same area can be as easy as cutting them up and rearranging the pieces. Gina the geometry student stayed up too late last night doing her homework while watching The ...
If earth, wind and fire are not enough to spark the mind, nothing is, reasoned San Francisco architect Michael Olexo as he approached his year as a resident artist at the Arts Far West middle and high ...
Today’s two questions test your geometrical smarts. The first is about a triangle, the second about a square. 1. Tricky triangle This one was sent in by a reader, aged 85, who first saw it in 1960. He ...
A mathematician has developed a new way to uncover simple patterns that might underlie apparently complex systems, such as clouds, cracks in materials or the movement of the stockmarket. The method, ...
Once a week I go out for lunch with my father-in-law and a couple of other retired gentlemen. As part of this, we take it in turns to bring a “project” for the others to peruse and ponder over the ...
STREAMLINED STYLE GETS A GEOMETRIC PUNCH WITH SHAPELY motifs such as dots, diamonds and triangles taking center stage. This modern geometry is especially effective on mid-century modern designs, made ...
“Our buildings tend to appear very simple, which is both a winning and a losing factor in competitions,” laughs architect Kersten Geers, founding partner, alongside David Van Severen, of ...
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