The Kakeya set—named for its discoverer Sōichi Kakeya—was complicated by a subsequent mathematician named Abram Samoilovitch ...

and encourages students to appreciate the geometric designs in nature and human-made objects. Keywords geometry, shapes, solids, mathematics, education, engineering, architecture, two-dimensional ...

Crows in a lab were able to distinguish shapes that exhibited right angles, parallel lines, and symmetry, suggesting that, ...

Two mathematicians now say they’ve made progress on a very old unsolved math problem. The problem involves a subfield called ...