1+ week, 3+ hour ago   (135+ words) Joan Birman thought her major discoveries were behind her. Then came an email from a young neighbor -- a girl who knew little but wanted to learn. Posted by retort at 03:45 PM | 0 COMMENTS | permalink | Comment on This Entry | Read the Retort…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago   (479+ words) As the saying goes, "If you love something, set it free. If it comes back, it is yours. If it doesn't, it never was." What most people don't tell you is that if you let that something go from exactly…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (568+ words) Every year, thousands of Arts students struggle with mathematics. Some fail it repeatedly. Some lose university opportunities because of it. Others leave school convinced that they are simply “bad at maths.” Perhaps the problem is not always the student. Perhaps,…...

2+ week, 3+ 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…...

5+ day, 5+ 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…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (596+ words) Repeating patterns in shapes build everything from snowflakes to the body plans of life By folding a piece of paper in half and cutting a shape — such as a heart — from both sides at once, you can make a shape…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (36+ words) There’s a sentence I keep returning to, one I first read in a paper and then couldn’t stop thinking about: a word is known by the company it keeps. It sounds like …...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (452+ words) independent enlargement is enough to explain the overall evolution of the neocortex. Fossils also require...