quinta-feira, 21 de março de 2013

Shapely algebra breakthrough wins million-dollar prize - physics-math - 20 March 2013 - New Scientist

Shapely algebra breakthrough wins million-dollar prize - physics-math - 20 March 2013 - New Scientist

Mathematicians have used pictures to solve equations ever since Pythagoras cooked up his famous theorem, but it wasn't until the 20th century that the deep links between shapes and sums really came into their own with the blossoming of algebraic geometry.

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