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Mathematicians are creating their own version of the periodic table that will provide a vast directory of all the possible shapes in the universe across three, four and five dimensions, linking ...
Rebecca Goldin, Emily Riehl, and Eugenia Cheng share their favorite puzzles, explain why math is like a dragon, and give tips for young women entering the field.
Mathematicians used “magic functions” to prove that two highly symmetric lattices solve a myriad of problems in eight- and 24-dimensional space.
Mathematicians are creating their own version of the periodic table that will provide a vast directory of all the possible shapes in the universe across three, four and five dimensions, linking ...
SHAPE SHADOW MATH TREK: SEEING 4-D: A team of mathematicians has created videos that attempt to visualize how we can perceive four-dimensional shapes in our three-dimensional space.
Over the last half 50 years, fractals have challenged ideas about geometry and pushed math, science and technology into unexpected areas.