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  1. Math

    Geometreks

    Strolling down a city street or along a country road can provide a geometrical feast for the eye—when the viewing is done from a mathematical perspective. National Gallery of Art, East Building. I. Peterson To fit the National Gallery’s East Building on a trapezoid-shaped site, architect I.M. Pei based his design on a division of […]

    By Ivars Peterson

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    This article cites reports that the shape of the universe is that of a soccer ball. An image in the article shows that the soccer ball appears as a mirror image of itself when viewed through each of its faces. If the universe were a finite bubble and there were an infinite number of universe […]

    By Science News
  3. Math

    The Shape of Space

    The debate over the shape of space has taken some new twists with the analysis of satellite snapshots of the universe's temperature waves.