In the coffee shop on our campus, students gather around a blackboard. On the table lies an open copy of Lobachevsky’s Theory ...

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Napoleon Bonaparte, First Consul. Work by Ingres. It was during this period that he came into contact with the theorems. Credit: Public domain / Wikimedia Commons His political stance allowed him to ...

Pi Day (3/14) often comes with sweet treats; Square Root Day (4/4/16 or 5/5/25, for example) has a certain numerical rhyme. But the particular string of numbers in today's date may be especially ...

This is an updated version of a story first published on Nov. 1, 2024 For centuries, students have learned that in a right triangle, the square of the hypotenuse equals the sum of the squares of the ...

Special dates, such as March 14 - 3/14 - (Pi Day), and May 4 (Star Wars Day) generate a lot of excitement every year. For mathematicians, there is also the Square Root Day (4/4/16 or 5/5/25). We just ...

An eon ago, when only microbes dwelled on Earth, a pair of black holes some 1.3 billion light-years beyond the solar system spiraled toward each other until they crashed. The two became one big black ...

Last week, a team of Indian birdwatchers recorded the call of a bird that had been lost to scientists for the past 16 years – the Jerdon’s Courser (Rhinoptilus bitorquatus). They had embarked on a ...

Can you chip in? The Internet Archive is a nonprofit fighting for universal access to quality information. We build and maintain all our own systems, but we don’t charge for access, sell user ...

The President has signed a budget reconciliation bill that will lead to 10 million people losing health insurance. At the same time, recent studies estimate that as many as 100 million Americans owe ...