What does packing balls in higher dimensions have to do with getting your message across?
Marcus du Sautoy talks about football, cryptography, and numbers.
How calculating the height of a frustum gave a glimpse of the mathematical frontier.
Following on from our previous article about curvature of lines and surfaces, we now move up to curvature of their higher dimensional equivalent – manifolds.
Does the ability to predict the future define the fundamental difference between living and inanimate matter?