IN a recent number (NATURE, vol. xviii. p. 263) we took occasion to suggest that the usefulness of a school scientific society might still further be increased by calling in the assistance of ...

Stony Brook University’s Simons Center for Geometry and Physics on the West Campus (see directions below) presents a lecture titled “Randomness” by celebrated and Abel prize winning mathematician Avi ...

In the mid-19th century, Bernhard Riemann conceived of a new way to think about mathematical spaces, providing the foundation ...

AT last there is an English edition, translated in America, of the first part of Prof. Reye's “Geometrie der Lage,” of which the first edition appeared as long ago as 1866. The methods followed offer ...

Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, Vol. 133, No. 7 (Jul., 2005), pp. 2045-2050 (6 pages) We show that every metric space with bounded geometry ...