Mathematicians Solve Decades-Old Geometric Mystery
Professors from NYU and the University of British Columbia have resolved the Kakeya set conjecture in three dimensions.
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Antique 'Specimens of Fancy Turning': Geometric designs from Edward J. Woolsey's 1869 albumen silver prints
These "Specimens of Fancy Turning" from a 1869 book of albumen silver prints look like antique, mystical spirograph toy ...
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New geometric design of material provides safer bicycle helmet
By using new geometric shapes in shock-absorbing material, researchers at the Universities of Gothenburg and Isfahan have ...
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The Geometric Period in Ancient Greece and Its Impact on Western Civilization
They agree, however, on when it ended, placing it around 700 BC, when the Classical period started. Geometric shapes did not appear for the first time in art in the Geometric period. Triangles, ...