A 150-year-old geometry rule has been overturned after mathematicians found two different torus surfaces with identical metric and curvature.

Decades of data have suggested the universe is flat, much like an infinite plane. But a new analysis reveals deep flaws in ...

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Geometry may be one of the oldest branches of mathematics, but it’s much more than a theoretical subject. It’s part of our everyday lives, says Professor Jennifer Taback, and key to understanding many ...

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 ...

Beer is best served cold, and it turns out that math can help with that. Cláudio de Castro Pellegrini of the Federal University of São João del-Rei in Brazil recently set out to formulate an equation ...