Do you think there’s a triangle whose angles measure 41, 76 and 63 degrees? At first, answering this may seem easy. From geometry class we know that the sum of the measures of the interior angles of a ...
If you take a moment to look around, you will find that our environment is a montage of geometric shapes. They are the building blocks of the world around us and are more important than we realize as ...
(Henceforth, when referring to the ideal, I'll call it capital-v "Value", while the real-world examples will be lowercase-v ...
In a new peer-reviewed study, Ne'Kiya Jackson and Calcea Johnson outlined 10 ways to solve the Pythagorean theorem using trigonometry, including a proof they discovered in high school. When you ...
How a centuries-old math puzzle helped us see inside the human brain. By Steven Strogatz Photo illustrations by Jens Mortensen Each installment of “Math, Revealed” starts with an object, uncovers the ...