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Known as the father of descriptive geometry, Gaspard Monge (1746-1818) was born in Beaune, Burgundy in France. Attending college at an early age, Monge showed mathematical talent early on. He drew a ...
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Noncommutative geometry offers a radical reformulation of traditional geometrical concepts by replacing the classical notion of a manifold with a noncommutative algebra of coordinates. This approach ...
In the third century BCE, Apollonius of Perga asked how many circles one could draw that would touch three given circles at exactly one point each. It would take 1,800 years to prove the answer: eight ...
Polina Vytnova has been previously supported by EPSRC. At the beginning of my third year at university studying mathematics, I spotted an announcement. A visiting professor from Canada would be giving ...