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 ...

ALGEBRAIC geometry, in spite of its beauty and importance, has long been reproached for lacking proper foundations. Great discoveries have been made, especially in Italy, by the intuition of a number ...

Villagers belonging to an Amazonian group called the Mundurucú intuitively grasp abstract geometric principles despite having no formal math education, say psychologist Véronique Izard of Université ...

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 ...

All eyes are on Brazil's World Cup but a new Royal Academy exhibition showcases a different kind of South American artistry, and makes a stunning case for the continent's geometric art In 1943, the ...

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 ...