In a South American jungle, far from traffic circles, city squares and the Pentagon, beats the heart of geometry. Villagers belonging to an Amazonian group called the Mundurucú intuitively grasp ...

Maximum principles lie at the heart of many profound results in Riemannian geometry, offering tools to derive rigidity, uniqueness and nonexistence theorems for geometric objects. At their core, these ...

Villagers belonging to an Amazonian group called the Mundurucú intuitively grasp abstract geometric principles despite having no formal math education, say psychologist Véronique Izard of Université ...

Right from the get-go of this self-titled debut it s made blatantly apparent that Principles of Geometry are huge-ass Boards of Canada fans. While this might limit their scope and originality, it ...

THE book under review is the sixth volume of the “Principles of Geometry” by Prof. H. F. Baker, of St. John's College, Cambridge. As expository treatises of algebraic geometry, these six volumes ...