Word: geometeric
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So that you may sleep at night unhindered by the burden of this deeply haunting matter, I will now lay to rest an age old question: The correct name for a polygon with 77 sides is a heptacontakaiheptagon. How in the olden days of 1992 a troubled geometer might have...
While being in the presence of these great minds is a little more than intimidating for FM, it’s clear that there is definitely one academic department that keeps the f of u [f(u)] in fun. “Belgian ales and [famed algebraic geometer] Oscar Zariski...
Perhaps Pi Day was overshadowed by the Ides of March the next morning. The Ides are easily remembered; they have a great hero in Caesar and a great poet in William Shakespeare. Pi too has its heroes, Archimedes and Lindemann, and a poet in Dante, who in his Divine Commedy...
Sidestepping the familiar monuments of Paris, Kertesz sought candid bits of street life, preferably from a high vantage point, where he could inspect the world without engaging it. He had a geometer's orientation: in many of his best shots, people are distant figures, elegantly distributed among the grids and...
Useful Guide. Toynbee has a very human eye for detail-but with a scholarly difference. Brasilia, the new capital of Brazil, pleases him because it has escaped the "geometer"-the builder who lays out cities as grids. But it also reminds him that "chessboard Babylon was so depressing for Nebuchadnezzar...