Researchers in France and at Harvard University have found that isolated indigenous peoples deep in the Amazon readily grasp basic concepts of geometry such as points, lines, parallelism and right ...

Villagers belonging to an Amazonian group called the Mundurucú intuitively grasp abstract geometric principles despite having no formal math education, say psychologist Véronique Izard of Université ...

Humans possess a higher-level, universal capacity to grasp abstract geometrical concepts, a study finds. Humans are unique among primates in their ability to create formal symbolic systems that ...

In a South American jungle, far from traffic circles, city squares and the Pentagon, beats the heart of geometry. Villagers belonging to an Amazonian group called the Mundurucú intuitively grasp ...

This exploratory study aimed to investigate some elements of geometrical concepts that children learn through Logo programming. A test designed to probe children's conceptions of three components of ...

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Noncommutative geometry offers a radical reformulation of traditional geometrical concepts by replacing the classical notion of a manifold with a noncommutative algebra of coordinates. This approach ...