Tucked away in a seemingly forgotten corner of the Istanbul Archaeology Museum, Daniel Mansfield found what may solve one of ancient math’s biggest questions. First exhumed in 1894 from what is now ...

Discusses the properties and types of triangles, explaining that a triangle is a closed figure with three sides and angles. It categorizes triangles into equilateral, isosceles, scalene, obtuse, right ...

Everyone learns the number one rule about triangles in high school: the angles of a triangle add up to 180 degrees. But did you know that sometimes they don't? Triangles are much more interesting than ...

Named for Plato, who theorized that the classical elements were made of these regular polyhedrons, three of the Platonic solids are composed of equilateral triangles: the tetrahedron, octahedron, and ...

A triangle is a polygon. It is a closed 3-sided shape made up of straight lines. The ‘tri-’ part of the word triangle means three. A triangle has 3 sides and 3 angles. Interior angles are the angles ...

Well, what is the best way to cut a sandwich in half? Surely triangles don't really have "more sandwich," right? That's geometry and the law of conservation of matter. But something about the ...

In Disney’s 1959 film Donald in Mathmagic Land, Donald Duck, inspired by the narrator’s descriptions of the geometry of billiards, energetically strikes the cue ball, sending it ricocheting around the ...