Three Vietnamese scientists have helped create AI that is able to solve Olympiad geometry problems as well as a human bronze medalist. Trinh Hoang Trieu, 29, Luong Minh Thang, 36, and Le Viet Quoc, 42 ...

Symplectic geometry is a relatively new field with implications for much of modern mathematics. Here’s what it’s all about. In the early 1800s, William Rowan Hamilton discovered a new kind of ...

Can you imagine the imprint a four-dimensional hexagon might leave as it passes through your three-dimensional kitchen table? Probably not, but some people can. One such person was mathematician ...

Crows are able to look at a handful of four-sided shapes and correctly distinguish those that exhibit geometric regularity from those that don't, according to a provocative new study. It's the first ...

In the third century BCE, Apollonius of Perga asked how many circles one could draw that would touch three given circles at exactly one point each. It would take 1,800 years to prove the answer: eight ...

Today’s two questions test your geometrical smarts. The first is about a triangle, the second about a square. 1. Tricky triangle This one was sent in by a reader, aged 85, who first saw it in 1960. He ...