The Impossible Man,” by Patchen Barss, depicts the British mathematical physicist and Nobelist Sir Roger Penrose in all his ...

There’s a new book out this week, a biography of Roger Penrose by Patchen Barss, with the title The Impossible Man: Roger Penrose and the cost of genius. Penrose is one of the greatest ...

A maths professor shared a quiz on social media that begins with a drawing of a small triangle within another bigger triangle ...

And depending on the manner in which geometric information is presented, interpreting objects in the exact way a teacher intended may be next to impossible. Consider the two figures shown below.

In total, there are over 800 straight lines, 300 geometric figures and 70 animal and plant ... However, since the lines are virtually impossible to identify from ground level, they were only ...

Yale professor Sam Raskin led a team to prove the geometric Langlands conjecture, solving a major part of one of math’s most ...

Mark Gutierrez is a guitar designer and modder with tremendous versatility. Whether he's upgrading cheap pickups, converting acoustics to rubber bridges or creating wild 9-string guitars, he's ...