Greene offers up a garden hose as a good example of what the fourth dimension looks like. From far away, this garden hose may look one-dimensional to the naked eye. From a distance, we simply can’t ...

Theoretical mathematician Lauren K. Williams is the second woman in Harvard’s history to get tenure in the math department ...

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 ...

Professor Lauren Williams was joined by a cultural anthropologist in Providence and a cartographer and basketmaker from Maine ...