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 ...

Blaise Pascal independently rediscovered classical geometry at the age of 12 despite a ban on formal maths studies. His early ...

Interior angles in a triangle add up to 180˚. Triangles close triangleA polygon with three straight sides. have three sides, therefore they have three angles. Interior angles in a triangle sum to a ...

A UNSW mathematician has revealed the origins of applied geometry on a 3700-year-old clay tablet that has been hiding in plain sight in a museum in Istanbul for over a century. The tablet – known as ...

The oldest example of applied geometry has been discovered on a 3,700-year-old clay tablet featuring maths attributed to Pythagoras 1,000 years later. The tablet, known as Si.427 was discovered in the ...