Grab a pen and draw a figure. Follow a few rules: keep your lines straight, don’t pick up your pen, don’t cross the lines, and finish at the spot where you started. You’ll have a polygon. Polygons are ...

Wei Ho, the first director of the Women and Mathematics program at the Institute for Advanced Study, combines algebra and geometry in her work on an ancient class of curves. Like many people who would ...

When it comes to good YouTube videos, I’m biased in favor of content made explicitly for the platform: media critiques, long-form investigations, and pointless tests of human endurance. “Outside In” ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract We derive a formula for an n-th order divided difference of the inverse of a function. The formula has a simple and surprising structure: it ...

Historical problems related to cycloids form the background for an investigation of paths traced by rolling regular polygons. Using trigonometry, geometry, and calculus, the lengths of and areas under ...

Landmark results in geometry and number theory marked an exciting year for mathematics, at a time when advances in artificial intelligence are starting to transform the subject’s future. In May, a ...