Mathematician Richard Evan Schwartz of Brown University tackled the problem in a recent study by working backward from an existing polyhedral torus to answer questions about what would be needed to ...

Jeff Smith's Math Puzzle for February 6, 2026 - If you can’t be the tiger, at least muster the courage to stand on the ...

The Great Pyramid of Giza, the oldest and sole surviving Wonder of the Ancient World, has attracted the interest of philosophers, savants, and travelers for at least four millennia. Some of this ...

It’s no secret that many of us are not too fond of mathematics and geometry, and that it is often too complex. But even so, it can be pretty mind-blowing to look back in history and discover the ...

We introduce OneThinker, an all-in-one multimodal reasoning generalist that is capable of thinking across a wide range of fundamental visual tasks within a single model. OneThinker demonstrates strong ...

Xiaomi Corp. today released MiMo-7B, a new family of reasoning models that it claims can outperform OpenAI’s o1-mini at some tasks. The algorithm series is available under an open-source license. Its ...

Crows are able to look at a handful of four-sided shapes and correctly distinguish those that exhibit geometric regularity from those that don't, according to a provocative new study. It's the first ...

Abstract: The knowledge of yaw and pitch angles can provide significant benefits while assessing the performance of a projectile as it approaches the terminal stage of flight. It is typical in ...

A student from ancient Sumer (modern-day Iraq) got the answer wrong on their 4,000-year-old geometry homework at a time when the world shifted from oral to written dissemination of knowledge. The ...

Hilton, N.Y.— Many teachers at schools along the path of totality are using the April 8 total solar eclipse as an opportunity to teach their students in unique ways. Ashley Simone, a seventh-grade ...