In 1867, French mathematician Pierre Ossian Bonnet proved something that seemed like common sense: if you know how far apart any two points on a surface are, and how the surface curves at every point, ...
Editor's note: This column appears in the May 18 issue of ESPN The Magazine. My father visited me last weekend for two reasons: He wanted to see his granddaughter, and he wanted to finalize his will ...
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Two US high school girls rewrite 2,000 years of mathematics with a new Pythagorean proof once thought untouchable
For centuries, the Pythagorean Theorem has occupied a unique position in mathematics: both elementary and profound. Its equation, a² + b² = c², is taught early and used widely, yet its implications ...
Hey there. I’m Neil Armstrong. These are my buddies Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins. We’re descending at 17,500 miles per hour, temperatures of 3000 degrees surround this tiny metal capsule and to my ...
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