This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In the early 1940s David Kendall conjectured that the shapes of the 'large' (i.e. large area A) convex polygons determined by a standard ...

The reclusive Russian mathematician Grigory Perelman became a minor media celebrity last summer when he refused the prestigious Fields medal, awarded every four years to a mathematician under the age ...

The Poincaré conjecture can be understood by analogy with the case in two dimensions. A two-dimensional space, or surface, is like a bubble made from an infinitely thin film of soap. If the bubble is ...

In an old Indian parable, six blind men each touch a different part of an elephant. They disagree about what the elephant must look like: Is it smooth or rough? Is it like a snake (so thinks the man ...

Imagine someone who scaled the towering peaks of mathematics, solving a complicated problem that had baffled the greatest minds for over a century—the legendary Poincaré Conjecture. This wasn’t just ...

Hyam Rubinstein receives funding from the Australian Research Council and has also received funding from several mining companies for research on the optimal design of access networks in underground ...

Is it possible to deduce the shape of a drum from the sounds it makes? This is the kind of question that Iosif Polterovich, a professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Université de ...

After German mathematician Gerd Faltings proved the Mordell conjecture in 1983, he was awarded the Fields Medal, often described as the “Nobel Prize of Mathematics.” The conjecture describes the set ...