The quadrature of the circle is one of the great problems posed by the ancient Greeks. This "squaring of the circle" was also an issue of particular interest to Leopold Bloom, the central character in ...

Differential geometry is a pivotal field of mathematics that examines the properties of curves, surfaces and more general manifolds by utilising methods from calculus and linear algebra. Its ...

LOS ANGELES — What do coastlines, clouds, cauliflower and the stock market have in common? Mathematician Ben oit Mandelbrot may not have conceived the question, but he provided an answer — one that ...

Artwork based on the 3-4-5 triangle and its excircles. (Courtesy: Eugen Jost/Princeton University Press) “In science, one plus one is always two; in art it can also be three or more.” This quotation ...

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 ...