(1) CHRISTIAN VON STAUDT'S “Beiträge zur Geometrie der Lage” was published so long ago as 1857; about the year 1871 Felix Klein wrote a series of papers emphasising the fact that it is possible to ...

Dr. Fryer is a professor of economics at Harvard University, founder of Equal Opportunity Ventures and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. Call it MAG: mutually assured gerrymandering. First ...

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The portly, balding sculptor-turned-architect must have drawn a few curious gazes as he set up a complicated painting apparatus in the corner of a Renaissance-era piazza. He planted his instrument, ...

THIS text-book should evoke in the student a realization of the infinite possibilities opened up by the many geometries included in the general scheme in which the classical geometry of his curriculum ...

Discusses the properties and types of triangles, explaining that a triangle is a closed figure with three sides and angles. It categorizes triangles into equilateral, isosceles, scalene, obtuse, right ...

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Anyone who has seen the classic rabbit-duck optical illusion knows the magic and confusion of duality. One might see a duck facing to the left with its bill hanging slightly open or a rabbit with its ...

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Mathematicians are “reinventing the wheel” by giving it a new shape. Their newly imagined wheel looks like a many-dimensional guitar pick, and it could theoretically roll in ways beyond our ...

1 Faculty of Education, Curriculum and Instruction, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada 2 Faculty of Education, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada Projective geometry is a prominent ...