The study of conformal (angle-preserving) maps has a long history. Since the earth is curved, any geographical map has to distort either angles or sizes. For navigation, conformality - preserving ...

HICL Infrastructure PLC and Renewables Infrastructure Group, known as TRIG, agreed to merge in a deal that creates a company with net assets of over 5.3 billion pounds ($6.98 billion). The companies ...

The 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire—which killed 146 garment workers—shocked the public and galvanized the labor movement. Fire hoses spray the upper floors of the Asch Building—headquarters to ...

A London-based dentist may have cracked a centuries-old mathematics puzzle hidden in one of the most famous anatomical drawings in the world—Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man. This discovery suggests ...

Every financial expert has a different opinion on what you need to do to achieve your financial goals. They will shout these ideas into the void, claiming anyone who doesn’t follow their way is doing ...

About a decade ago Tonan Kamata, now a mathematician at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), stood mesmerized in front of a math museum’s origamilike exhibit. It featured a ...

MR. H. HARBORD, who hails from Hull, has put forth three letters, with which we have been favoured. “The Circle Squared” (in November 1867) has, we guess, been noticed by Prof. De Morgan. There is a ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. What is a triangle? We all know that a triangle is a three-sided shape — 1, 2, 3 sides. A triangle also ...

In the 1930s, a mathematician by the name of Nicolas Bourbaki was said to frequent the Café Capoulade in Paris, a haven for artists and intellectuals near Luxembourg Gardens. There he wrote an ...

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