Blaise Pascal independently rediscovered classical geometry at the age of 12 despite a ban on formal maths studies. His early ...
The quadrature of the circle is one of the great problems posed by the ancient Greeks. This "squaring of the circle" was also an issue of particular interest to Leopold Bloom, the central character in ...
LOS ANGELES — What do coastlines, clouds, cauliflower and the stock market have in common? Mathematician Ben oit Mandelbrot may not have conceived the question, but he provided an answer — one that ...