In a South American jungle, far from traffic circles, city squares and the Pentagon, beats the heart of geometry. Villagers belonging to an Amazonian group called the Mundurucú intuitively grasp ...

I SEE your reviewer of Prof. Veronese's book on “Abstract Geometry” says: “Apparently this method” (that of pure geometry, free from axes, algebraic processes, &c.) “has not previously been applied to ...

NEWARK Art museums are in the business of sorting out history. And it often falls to our smaller institutions to tackle the initial, broad-stroke cuts. Over the years the Newark Museum has taken on ...

Monkeys use some of the same basic mental strategies as people do to perceive abstract relationships between shapes, a new study suggests. The findings challenge the idea that humans crossed a sharp ...

MODERN speculations on the Foundations of Geometry have raised the question of the character of Geometry as a science, and the question has been answered in different ways. Some writers have held that ...