The TV series Numb3rs has highlighted how mathematics can play a role in solving crimes. Even though the episodes are sometimes rather fanciful, they still illustrate ways in which various types of ...

In early 20th-century Paris, there was a boy so mesmerized by math that when his parents took his paper and pencil away, urging him to play, he found a rock and scribbled algebra equations on the ...

Combinatorial geometry, an area intertwining discrete mathematics and geometry, investigates the structure, properties and interrelations of polytopes—multidimensional generalisations of polygons and ...