It is often said that the most influential book in the history of Western thought is Euclid’s mathematical treatise “Elements.” The work of a Greek mathematician living in Alexandria around the year ...

SCREF copy Purchased with Adopt-a-Book funds. An eye-opening narrative of how geometric principles fundamentally shaped our world. On a cloudy day in 1413, a balding young man stood at the entrance to ...

I first started teaching Geometry last year and have taken over "Informal Geometry" this year. As the name of the second class implies, the idea of formal proof is strongly de-emphasized; this class ...

On November 26, 1949, Albert Einstein published an essay in the Saturday Review of Literature in which he described two pivotal moments in his childhood. The first involved a compass that his father ...

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 ...

OXFORD.—An important change has recently been made in the regulations for Responsions. The change affects the examination in the Elements of Geometry. Instead of Euclid's Elements Books i. and ii., ...

The tenets of Euclidean geometry and artistry of formal garden design become keystones shaping modernity in the latest exploration by historian Alexander (Infinitesimal) of math’s influence on history ...