Have you ever wondered who is behind geometry's most fundamental truths? You guessed it: it is Euclid of Greece.

Mathematical knowledge has puzzled philosophers for millennia. The LSE’s own Imre Lakatos coined the term “Euclidean Programme” for the historically dominant way of thinking about this phenomenon. In ...

Mathematics is distinguished from the sciences by the freedom it enjoys in choosing basic assumptions from which consequences can be deduced by applying the laws of logic. We call the basic ...

It may contain inaccuracies due to the limitations of machine translation. A dialogue on how questioning a 2,000-year-old truth gave birth to a new geometry that reshaped mathematics and our ...

If you have taken high school geometry, you have learned about the Pythagorean Theorem (even if you don’t remember it today). The theorem is an essential part of Euclidean geometry, and it goes as ...