IN a recent number (NATURE, vol. xviii. p. 263) we took occasion to suggest that the usefulness of a school scientific society might still further be increased by calling in the assistance of ...
Mathematicians often comment on the beauty of their chosen discipline. For the non-mathematicians among us, that can be hard to visualise. But in Prof Caroline Series’s field of hyperbolic geometry, ...
On June 10, 1854, Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann gave his classic lecture on curved space. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com] Riemann was a 19th century mathematician from Germany.