Without it, the worst known shape is the seven-sided regular heptagon (space filled: about 89.27%), though mathematicians are nowhere close to being able to prove it’s the worst. Hales and Vajjha ...

A geometry problem that has been puzzling scientists for 60 years has likely just been solved by an amateur mathematician with a newly discovered 13-sided shape.

Shape of Pasta would almost border on comical, if he wasn’t so genuinely earnest. The minute Funke encounters one of the pasta-makers, he reverts to student status.

“The hat,” however, is an aperiodic tile, meaning it can still completely cover a surface without any gaps, but you can never identify any cluster that periodically repeats itself to do so.

According to Harari, “if Kolkota had the same compact shape that Bengaluru has, the average trip to the center would be shorter by 4.5 kilometers and the average trip within the city would be ...

In his book, The Shape of the Heart, Pierre Vinken takes us back through history to explore the etiology of the scalloped heart and its enduring, pervasive presence for centuries.Organized as a ...