On a Saturday afternoon in the fall of 2021, Silvio Decurtins was leafing through a paper with a title that could have been pulled from a comic book for mathematically inclined teens: “Plato’s Cube ...

Proving that two polygons have the same area can be as easy as cutting them up and rearranging the pieces. Gina the geometry student stayed up too late last night doing her homework while watching The ...

Utrecht University researchers Rodolfo Subert and Marjolein Dijkstra show in their latest study that complex three-dimensional networks in materials can emerge from nothing more than particle shape.

A mathematician has developed a new way to uncover simple patterns that might underlie apparently complex systems, such as clouds, cracks in materials or the movement of the stockmarket. The method, ...

Once a week I go out for lunch with my father-in-law and a couple of other retired gentlemen. As part of this, we take it in turns to bring a “project” for the others to peruse and ponder over the ...

If earth, wind and fire are not enough to spark the mind, nothing is, reasoned San Francisco architect Michael Olexo as he approached his year as a resident artist at the Arts Far West middle and high ...

Deformation processes transform solid materials from one shape into another. The initial shape is usually simple (e.g., a billet or sheet blank) and is plastically deformed between tools, or dies, to ...

“Our buildings tend to appear very simple, which is both a winning and a losing factor in competitions,” laughs architect Kersten Geers, founding partner, alongside David Van Severen, of ...