Using a relatively young theory, a team of mathematicians has started to answer questions whose roots lie at the very ...

Evan O’Dorney leaps from his seat and snatches the chalk from his teacher’s hand. “I think it goes like this,” the eighth-grader exclaims. He has come up with a formula for the number of ways to ...

A sector is a fraction of a circle. The angle in the sector is a fraction of 360°. This sector has an angle of θ°. The fraction of the circle is \(\frac{θ}{360}\) The area of the sector will be ...

The shortest distance between two points is a straight line. This is one of the basic principles of Euclidean geometry. But we live on a spherical Earth, so we cannot travel the straight line path ...

THIS work of Prof. Smith's has a “very practical purpose,” viz, “to present in simple and intelligible form a body of geometric doctrine, acquaintance with which may fairly be demanded of candidates ...

A cylinder is a circular prism close circular prism (cylinder)A three-dimensional figure having two parallel bases that are circles equal in terms of radius, diameter, circumference and surface area ...

Who knew that pizza night was a geometry quiz waiting to happen? On June 29, a tweet went viral. Like, really viral. The user, @cretiredroy, told the story of a visit to a pizzeria that turns into a ...