What do car crash testers, video game creators, and scientists who study athletic performance have in common? All use geometry in their cool jobs. Check it out.

Ten of the important inventions and innovations of the ancient Greeks are described. These include the water mill, the odometer, alarm clocks, cartography, the Olympics, geometry, Hippocratic medicine, philosophy, democracy, and...

This article gives a detailed explanation of how transgression and regression of sea levels work to create deposits of sedimentary rocks. Illustrations show the layering that takes place over time. The article discusses how geologists...

This site contains events of the life of Gottfried Leibnitz. It is presented in a timeline form.

Apparently bees are geometry masterminds. Who knew? Find out why bees make hives out of a collection of hexagons.

This page gives information about Hippocrates and his life. While brilliant at geometry, he was perceived as being naive and not as bright in handling his personal financial matters.

The church of Sao Francisco, with its curving geometries and lively ornamentation, stands in sharp contrast to traditional early modern Portuguese architecture which generally favored simple plans and exteriors. View pictures and read...

Read about a math research project done by three college students which helps us see physics and math in music. Here's a great approach for integrating curriculum!

Find out about one of the most influential and universal mathematicians of the 19th and early 20th centuries, David Hilbert.

Learn about the Greek scientist best known as the author of the Elements, the oldest book consisting of geometrical theorems which is considered to be a standard for logical exposition.

Provides information on Euclid's accomplishments as a mathematician.

This article talks about how acceleration is the change of velocity as time passes anytime we speed up or slow down, or change direction, we undergo acceleration.

Learn how Greek mathematician Eratosthenes used geometry to estimate the circumference of the Earth.

Let's read about the word of adjacent, look at examples, and learn how angles can be adjacent. Check out the interesting examples to know more about this lesson and try your hand at solving a few interactive questions at the end of the...