Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fano varieties are known as the basic “atomic structure” of geometry, but are notoriously difficult to discover and organize.

The cosmological constant is the mathematical description of the energy that drives the ever-accelerating expansion of the ...

In nature, many things have evolved that differ in size, color and, above all, in shape. While the color or size of an object can be easily described, the description of a shape is more complicated.

Sometimes visualising a geometrical proof can make understanding it so much easier. Now mathematicians Elizabeth Slavkovsky and Oliver Knill, both of Harvard University, have taken a step in that ...

Last spring, mathematician Henry Segerman found a peculiar post on Facebook. It was by a programmer who had could not conjure mental images---a condition called aphantasia. Segerman immediately ...