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Tag: Geometry
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Science & Tech
Solving the problem of the calculus whiz
New Harvard research challenges conventional wisdom on what it takes to excel in calculus.
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Science & Tech
A higher plane
Research by scientists in Elizabeth Spelke’s lab suggests our innate understanding of abstract geometry has origins in the evolutionary past.
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Health
Finding our way
Elizabeth Spelke, a professor of psychology, discussed research on how humans develop navigational skills in an event at the Barker Center.
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Science & Tech
Simple beauties of math (yes, math)
Mathematics Professor Shing-Tung Yau tells how he discovered the Calabi-Yau manifold, a mysterious but important mathematical concept important in string theory.
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Arts & Culture
Hunting for rhythm’s DNA
Radcliffe Fellow Godfried Toussaint taps computer science in a search for the evolutionary development of world music’s basic rhythms.
