If two people pick alternate slices from a pizza that has been cut unevenly from an off-centre point, common sense suggests one of them will walk away with more. But geometry says otherwise. In the ...

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With its bright colors, easy-to-learn rules and familiar music, the video game Tetris has endured as a pop culture icon over the last 40 years. Many people, like me, have been playing the game for ...

Algebraic geometry and number theory intersect in the study of solutions to polynomial equations and their symmetries. Algebraic geometry provides a language of schemes and varieties to capture ...