The University of Manchester has been gifted a unique mathematical object known as a Gömböc – the first known physical example of a new class of shapes called mono-monostatics. The Gömböc is tangible ...

Many people think that mathematics is a human invention. To this way of thinking, mathematics is like a language: it may describe real things in the world, but it doesn’t “exist” outside the minds of ...

Sam Baron receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Many people think that mathematics is a human invention. To this way of thinking, mathematics is like a language: it may describe real ...

Many people think that mathematics is a human invention. To this way of thinking, mathematics is like a language: it may describe real things in the world, but it doesn't exist outside the minds of ...

Lauren Williams has charted an adventurous mathematical career out of the pieces of a fundamental object called the positive Grassmannian. The outline of Lauren Williams’ mathematical career was ...

Several fields of mathematics have developed in total isolation, using their own 'undecipherable' coded languages. Mathematicians now present 'big algebras,' a two-way mathematical 'dictionary' ...

This octagonal wooden stick has a spiral drawn around it which is divided lengthwise to form two adjacent spirals. Numbers in each spiral begin at zero and increase clockwise going down the stick. The ...