Geometry

Seeing Math: A New Language for Geometry

Arts, Culture & Media

Long before Mondrian, an unknown Englishman created graphic rhythms out of lines and blocks of blue, red, and yellow. Not on a canvas, but in a textbook for geometry.

Voting stickers

The mathematician who’s using geometry to fight gerrymandering

Election 2016
Mathematician Oliver Byrne published "The Elements of Euclid" in 1847, updating the ancient geometry text with colorful design language.

A colorful, innovative take on Euclid finally gets its due

Books
Maryam Mirzakhani

An Iranian woman makes history in winning a math prize

Science

The Hoberman Sphere

Environment
Zizipho, an 8th grade student, displays her Pi Day poster.

School Year Blog: If There’s One Thing COSAT Students Love More than Pi, it’s Pie

Yesterday was Pi Day, when nerds around the world celebrate the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. (Pi, of course, begins with 3.14, hence 3/14 is Pi Day.) On Wednesday, students at COSAT created posters to honor that most famous of non-repeating, irrational numbers.

The World

Crochet, Geometry, and the Coral Reef

Arts, Culture & Media

Until recently, mathematicians believed you couldn’t represent hyperbolic geometry in real space, but a Latvian math professor discovered a way ? using crochet. Some science educators realized those same hyperbolic shapes mimicked the forms in coral reefs. And now their Crochet Coral Reef Project has landed at the Smithsonian’s Museum of Natural History. Produced by […]

The World

Aha Moment: Origami

Arts, Culture & Media

Listener Ben Coleman used to teach math, so he is no stranger to geometry. But it wasn’t until he discovered a book of origami and began creating shapes of his own that his passion for geometric forms was truly realized. Produced by Nick Heling.

The World

Geo answer

Environment

The Geo Quiz answer today is Nancy, France; birthplace of mathematician Henri Poincare. He posed a problem known as the Poincare Conjecture. Now a Russian mathematician has solved it. Anchor Marco Werman finds out more from reporter Galina Stolyarova.

The World

Geo answer

Arts, Culture & Media

Anchor Lisa Mullins reveals the answer to our Geo Quiz today. We wanted the name of the continent that extends into all 4 hemispheres of Earth — north, south, east and west. The answer is Africa, which has portions both north and south of the equator, and portions both east and west of the prime meridian.