Proving that two polygons have the same area can be as easy as cutting them up and rearranging the pieces. Gina the geometry student stayed up too late last night doing her homework while watching The ...

On a Saturday afternoon in the fall of 2021, Silvio Decurtins was leafing through a paper with a title that could have been pulled from a comic book for mathematically inclined teens: “Plato’s Cube ...

Renown abstract artist Paul Klee lived and breathed creativity. He was the son of a German music teacher and Swiss singer, he was an accomplished violinist in a symphony orchestra before he left a ...

Try drawing a picture that conveys telepathy, the ability to communicate through extrasensory means. How about telekinesis, the power to manipulate objects with the mind. Tricky, right? Now do it ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Anyone in doubt that geometric patterns are back in vogue among designers need have looked no further than Design ...