Tessellations aren’t just eye-catching patterns—they can be used to crack complex mathematical problems. By repeatedly reflecting shapes to tile a surface, researchers uncovered a method that links ...

Abstract: A line point cloud is a series of sequential discrete points acquired by a laser ranging sensor. Geometric properties estimation from line point clouds plays a crucial role in many ...

A Wall Street portfolio manager has gone viral with a blog post that posits a new poverty line for a family of four in America: $140,000 a year. It’s a large number. The Federal Poverty Level set by ...

This video covers a chaotic and unintentionally hilarious confrontation between a group of flat earthers and a genuine scientific powerhouse—someone armed with real data, real physics, and actual ...

Currently, Parabola in sympy.geometry does not provide a built-in method to compute the tangent line at a given point on the parabola. It would be useful to add a ...

Pope Leo XIV's election is seen as a continuation of Pope Francis's progressive legacy. In a historic conclave, Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost of Chicago was elected as Pope Leo XIV, becoming the ...

The 2024 book blogging stats transparency post shares all the stats for Bookwyrming Thoughts throughout the year and insights ...

It's the final short slate of the season as six teams will be on bye in Week 14. The action started hot and heavy with the highest opening total of the week on the Green Bay Packers and current Super ...

I didn’t find math particularly exciting when I was in high school. To be honest, I only studied it when I went to university because it initially seemed quite easy to me. But in my very first math ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In the fall of 2022, a Princeton University graduate student named Carolina Figueiredo stumbled onto a massive coincidence. She ...

It's another busy week with 30 teams in action in Week 9 of the NFL season. On Thursday, the New York Jets gave their fans a Halloween treat by defeating the Houston Texans in the Meadowlands to kick ...

The tangent is defined as the single point where a straight line meets a curved surface. The tangent can be determined with a collection of mathematical formulas but is most commonly determined by ...