Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855) left behind a trophy case stocked with mathematical achievements to choose from, but above all, he wanted a “regular heptadecagon” etched on his ...
Ms Lee will be starting her final year of university in autumn, where she will complete her thesis in a field of mathematics called combinatronics — the maths of counting and arranging.
Mathematics started with numbers — clear, concrete, intuitive. Over the last two centuries, however, it has become a far more abstract enterprise. One of the first major steps down this road was taken ...