A Classics student is trying to reconstruct the history of geometrical and mathematical diagrams by examining copies and translations of Elements, the ancient work of Greek mathematician Euclid.

Humans have been drawing lines and circles to grasp geometrical concepts and describe the laws of nature for about 5,000 years. But most scholars have approached the history of ancient mathematical ...

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 ...

Math equations can feel like a banal abstraction without images to make sense of the strings of numbers, letters, and Greek symbols. Consider the Pythagorean theorem, an essential relation in geometry ...

A diagram captioned: "experimental setting, upper view. The subject, television, and mirror (or metronome) can be seen." A diagram shows an overhead view of the setting. The subject faces a mirror or ...

Saltire Software, a mathematical software company founded in the late 1980’s, will launch CoreGX, its deterministic geometry engine for AI-native applications, at SIGGRAPH 2026, taking place July ...