is a stipendiary lecturer in mathematics at Mansfield College, University of Oxford. She did her DPhil at the University of Oxford. It is a hot July day in London and I take the bus to Bloomsbury. I ...

Understanding the historical evolution and divergence of languages requires a quantitative framework for measuring their relationships. Traditional linguistic classifications provide hierarchical ...

How few corners can a shape have and still tile the plane?” mathematician Gábor Domokos asked me over pizza. His deceptively simple question was about the geometry of tilings, also called ...

When Ernő Rubik invented his cube 50 years ago, he was not thinking of a toy, but of solving a geometric problem. But with around 500 million copies sold, the Magic Cube became the world’s most ...

Opening Reception: Thursday, September 19, 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. The Williamson Gallery will be closed during break from Monday, December 23, 2024, to Tuesday, January 7, 2025. We will reopen on Wednesday ...

Finding bipartite matchings is one of the oldest and most well-studied problems in computer science. This problem comes up in many guises, such as when matching donors to recipients for organ ...

Featuring the work of more than 16 artists and designers, including Refik Anadol, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, Mika Tajima, Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg, and others at the forefront of data ...