Leonhard Euler's polyhedron formula describes the structure of many objects--from soccer balls and gemstones to Buckminster Fuller's buildings and giant all-carbon molecules. Yet Euler's formula is so simple it can be explained to a...
David Richeson on Tales of ImpossibilityTales of Impossibility recounts the intriguing story of the so-called ‘problems of antiquity,’ four of the most famous and studied questions in the history of mathematics. Read More