Tag: Geometry

  • Science & Tech

    Solving the problem of the calculus whiz

    New Harvard research challenges conventional wisdom on what it takes to excel in calculus.

    4 minutes
  • 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.

    5 minutes
  • 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.

    2 minutes
  • 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.

    4 minutes
  • 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.

    4 minutes