Symmetry in mathematics occurs not only in geometry, but also in other branches of mathematics. It is actually the same as invariance: the property that something does not change under a set of ...

Author Mario Livio has studied the relationship between art and mathematics. He tells Michele Norris most of us are attracted to symmetry spiced by some elements of surprise... and that combo is the ...

A type of symmetry so unusual that it was called a “pariah” turns out to have deep connections to number theory. In 1892, the mathematician Otto Hölder posed a question that would occupy the field for ...