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 a recent number (NATURE, vol. xviii. p. 263) we took occasion to suggest that the usefulness of a school scientific society might still further be increased by calling in the assistance of ...
DIFFERENTIAL geometry is a technical and rather forbidding term, but the subject is of the highest interest, and not to mathematicians alone. It includes the whole theory of mapdrawing; it is required ...
John McGreevy is Professor of Physics at the University of California, San Diego. He is a theoretical physicist with interests in quantum matter, string theory, and ...