The notion of dimension at first seems intuitive. Glancing out the window we might see a crow sitting atop a cramped flagpole experiencing zero dimensions, a robin on a telephone wire constrained to ...

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 shapes ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. I love teaching Multivariate Calculus for many reasons. It is the piece of math that most reflects my ...

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 shapes ...

Mathematicians are “reinventing the wheel” by giving it a new shape. Their newly imagined wheel looks like a many-dimensional guitar pick, and it could theoretically roll in ways beyond our ...

A typical math problem for an American middle school student might be to calculate the sales tax on a dozen baseball caps. At an after-school program called the Berkeley Math Circle, a typical problem ...

An international team of mathematicians has detailed a vast complex numerical "structure" which was described more than a century ago. Mapping the 248-dimensional structure, called E8, took four years ...