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Pythagoras won’t balance your books
2+ day, 23+ hour ago (61+ words) GhanaWeb - You are only allowed to submit content which you have created yourself. - No nudity, pornography and any unlawful content is permitted. - You grant GhanaWeb the right to publish and use your content. - You allow GhanaWeb to communicate with you…...
There are just five perfect shapes in math—here's why
4+ day, 16+ hour ago (592+ words) Admittedly, their names offer no special aesthetic appeal. But their forms are unique. Platonic solids are polyhedrons with the highest possible symmetry. Each of their faces is bounded by the same number of edges, and the same number of faces…...
Heisuke Hironaka obituary: mathematician who smoothed out geometry’s complexities
2+ week, 1+ day ago (217+ words) His awe-inspiring proof for the resolution of singularities — such as peaks, edges and self-crossings — revolutionized algebraic geometry....
Finding Zero: Odyssey to Uncover the Origin of Numbers
2+ week, 2+ day ago (889+ words) Book Review | Finding Zero: A Mathematician’s Odyssey to Uncover the Origins of Numbers organiser.org Book Review | Finding Zero: A Mathematician’s Odyssey to Uncover the Origins of Numbers One of the most interesting features of Finding Zero is the way…...
THE TRAPEZOIDAL-PARALLELEPIPEDAL TRIANGLE
3+ week, 4+ day ago (28+ words) It had always been just a Triangle — a rigid, flat, two-dimensional shape on a graphic processor screen in an Austin laboratory. Three angles, three edges …...
Here’s How Albert Einstein Proved Pythagoras Theorem When He Was 11
3+ week, 6+ day ago (31+ words) When looking through the book Fractals, Chaos, Power Laws: Minutes from an Infinite Paradise by Manfred R. Schroeder, I came …...
Giraffes show basic maths skills, can mentally add hidden food quantities
4+ week, 1+ day ago (404+ words) New Delhi: Some giraffes can mentally combine hidden quantities of food, performing a basic cognitive process similar to simple addition. At the Barcelona Zoo, certain giraffes successfully tracked and chose containers holding larger combined amounts of carrots, according to a…...
Giraffes can do simple maths: Study
4+ week, 2+ day ago (80+ words) | The study was published in Scientific Reports | Inshorts Inshorts Giraffes can do simple maths: Study A study by the University of Barcelona has found that some giraffes can determine which of two options contains more food after mentally combining two…...
Why Trigonometry Is Quietly Everywhere, From Video Game Physics to the Phone in Your Pocket
4+ week, 2+ day ago (569+ words) For most of secondary school I thought trigonometry was invented specifically to ruin my Tuesday nights. Sine, cosine, tangent, some triangle with a mystery angle, a formula sheet I crammed the night before a test and forgot almost immediately after…...
The Circumference of an Ellipse
1+ mon, 1+ day ago (36+ words) If you remember basic school geometry, you probably know that the circumference of a circle is given by C = 2πr. The area of an ellipse is also easy to calculate: A = …...