Andrew Hicks is a mathematician, but unlike most of his colleagues, he produces work that even the right-brained can love. Hicks uses complex calculations to fabricate strangely shaped mirrors that do ...
When you look in a mirror, you see an image of yourself in reverse. But one odd mirror invented by mathematics professor Dr. R. Andrew Hicks at Drexel University shows your true face without reversing ...
Twenty-seven years ago, a group of physicists made an accidental discovery that flipped mathematics on its head. The physicists were trying to work out the details of string theory when they observed ...
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- A Drexel University math professor has been awarded a patent for a driver's-side mirror that eliminates the dreaded "blind spot." Dr. R. Andrew Hicks says the patent is the ...
The fine new “Numbers in Nature: A Mirror Maze” exhibition serves two purposes for the Museum of Science and Industry. It gives the museum a permanent exhibit that covers, in its way, mathematics, ...