IN reference to the controversy between Mr. Spencer and his reviewer about Sir I. Newton's calling his laws of motion “axioms,” it is to be observed that there is a certain ambiguity in the word.

OXFORD.—An important change has recently been made in the regulations for Responsions. The change affects the examination in the Elements of Geometry. Instead of Euclid's Elements Books i. and ii., ...

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 ...

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Nobel Prize-winning physicist Frank Wilczek explores the secrets of the cosmos. Read previous columns here. Euclid wrote his famous textbook of geometry, the “Elements,” around 300 B.C. It is a ...

Hyperbolic geometry originated in the 19th century, when mathematicians questioned the necessity of the parallel postulate in Euclidean geometry and discovered the hyperbolic plane ℍ², which satisfied ...