In a recent study, mathematicians from Freie Universität Berlin have demonstrated that planar tiling, or tessellation, is ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. The idea of “reflection” is one of several Euclidean motions in a plane that are studied in ...

A very recently published book "Mathematical Cultures, London Meetings 2012-2014," edited by Brendan Larvor, contains a chapter titled "Mathematics and First Nations in Western Canada: From Cultural ...

I can’t recall the last time the death of a school teacher, much less a math teacher, attracted as much attention as the recent death of Jaime Escalante. Of course, it doesn’t hurt to have a movie ...

Sociological Forum, Vol. 12, No. 1, Special Issue: Mathematics in Thinking about Sociology (Mar., 1997), pp. 73-101 (29 pages) As a participant in the development of mathematical sociology over the ...