IN a recent number (NATURE, vol. xviii. p. 263) we took occasion to suggest that the usefulness of a school scientific society might still further be increased by calling in the assistance of ...

Mathematicians often comment on the beauty of their chosen discipline. For the non-mathematicians among us, that can be hard to visualise. But in Prof Caroline Series’s field of hyperbolic geometry, ...

The MMGs has a broad variety of advanced lectures, seminars and courses on recent and fundamental research topics to broaden the horizon regarding neighboring mathematical fields. In addition to this, ...

DIFFERENTIAL geometry is a technical and rather forbidding term, but the subject is of the highest interest, and not to mathematicians alone. It includes the whole theory of mapdrawing; it is required ...

In our mind’s eye, the universe seems to go on forever. But using geometry we can explore a variety of three-dimensional shapes that offer alternatives to “ordinary” infinite space. When you gaze out ...