Symplectic geometry is a relatively new field with implications for much of modern mathematics. Here’s what it’s all about. In the early 1800s, William Rowan Hamilton discovered a new kind of ...

A WELL-ATTENDED conference of science masters in public schools was held last month at the University of London, and among the many interesting papers read was one by Mr. W. D. Eggar, of Eton, on the ...

An eminent mathematician reveals that his advances in the study of millennia-old mathematical questions owe to concepts derived from physics. Mathematics is full of weird number systems that most ...

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