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Indra’s Pearls: Geometry and Symmetry

An explanation of the first computer exploration of Felix Klein's vision of fractals in the 1980s, and what mathematics has gained by it.

Astronomers have learnt about the early universe from the discovery...

Maths can tell us unexpected things about sporting movement and...

We know that some 3 to 4 thousand million years...

Simple maths can reveal how energy efficient different forms of...

Some of the most beautiful parts of the heavens are...

Everything we buy, from books to baked beans, has a...

There is simple evidence that, even in recent times, the...

From the 12-note music of Schoenberg, via the stochastic procedures...

Geometers study shapes and how they transform into one other...