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Crows can recognize geometric patterns, suggesting that humans aren't unique in understanding shape structure.
W hen most people think of shapes, they imagine a triangle, a rectangle, or maybe even a fancier- sounding rhombus or ...
In a remarkable new study, crows demonstrated an intuitive grasp of geometry—identifying irregular shapes without training.
Crows in a lab were able to distinguish shapes that exhibited right angles, parallel lines, and symmetry, suggesting that, ...
A new study shows that like humans, crows can recognize geometric regularity, making them the first nonhuman animal known to have this ability.
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The Kakeya set—named for its discoverer Sōichi Kakeya—was complicated by a subsequent mathematician named Abram Samoilovitch ...
Mathematicians have finally solved a geometry problem that ... compared to the larger circle traced by turning it around its center. Claudio Rocchini via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0 The ...
Archytas of Tarentum, who was born around the year 435 BC in Taranto, Italy, was another in a long line of polymaths from Ancient Greece.
Using advanced mathematical tools inspired by physics, the team has derived a general equation for any number of tangent ...
Monash University researchers have extended Descartes’ Circle Theorem by finding a general equation for any number of tangent ...
A math question apparently meant for 7-year-olds has left adults befuddled. The bonus math question -- which was first said to have originated on a first-grade level exam paper in Singapore -- has ...