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geometry

[jee-om-i-tree] / dʒiˈɒm ɪ tri /


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The award for Tsimerman recognized his work, among other achievements, in helping to prove the André-Oort conjecture, a longstanding problem in geometry, the University of Toronto said.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

“Thunder is purpose-built for the new geometry of battlefield maneuver.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

That means traces of the proposed 7-dimensional geometry might be preserved in the Cosmic Microwave Background or in primordial gravitational waves.

From Science Daily Jul. 5, 2026

Riemann’s Ph.D. adviser, the legendary Carl Friedrich Gauss, tasked him with revamping geometry to better handle curved spaces and more dimensions than three.

From Slate Jun. 22, 2026

The Egyptians, who had invented geometry, thought little about mathematics.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

Because the antennas have different geometries, each one also has a different propagation coefficient, which describes how light moves through the structure.

From Science Daily Jul. 22, 2026

It is a lesson in contrasts—hard geometries and muted hues fronting loose forms and cheerful colors—that evinces the influence of Pierre Bonnard and Édouard Vuillard on his work.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

So does Helen Lundeberg, whose familiar architectural geometries in landscape paintings get an unexpected twist in three 1960s canvases inspired by extraterrestrial musings.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 29, 2024

Today, Jones, 55, is a celebrated minimalist whose work on paper and canvas, in sculpture and sound, is scrupulously reduced to its geometries, its tones, its colors.

From New York Times May 10, 2024

Armed with garbage bags we proceeded grimly through the house, emptying shelves and cabinets and crawl spaces, discovering geometries of dust beneath objects unmoved for years.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs




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