The Kakeya set—named for its discoverer Sōichi Kakeya—was complicated by a subsequent mathematician named Abram Samoilovitch ...

Pythagoras' theorem close Pythagoras' theoremPythagoras's theorem applies to right-angled triangles. The area of the square drawn on the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares drawn on the ...

How much area does it take up when you rotate a line segment 360 degrees? Two mathematicians now say they’ve made progress on a very old unsolved math problem. The problem involves a subfield ...

Two mathematicians now say they’ve made progress on a very old unsolved math problem. The problem involves a subfield called geometric measure theory, in which sets of objects are generalized in an ...

How much area does it take up when you rotate a line segment 360 degrees? Two mathematicians now say they’ve made progress on a very old unsolved math problem. The problem involves a subfield ...