geometry

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“By the time the Scramble for Africa was over,” Martin Meredith tells us, the vagaries of geopolitical geometry had amalgamated “some 10,000 African polities . . . into forty European colonies and protectorates.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

As scientists continue to explore how geometry shapes quantum behavior, such emergent magnetic states could play an important role in developing energy efficient, post-CMOS computing technologies.

From Science Daily • Mar. 2, 2026

“I wasn’t that crazy about algebra, and I did not fully master it, but geometry was something that just came naturally to me,” she wrote in a 2020 memoir, “It Began With a Dream.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026

In that vision, hue, saturation and lightness would be determined entirely by geometry and the principle of greatest color similarity.

From Science Daily • Feb. 23, 2026

“It’s just a very challenging plane geometry problem. How do we find ‘X’ without knowing ‘A’? I may need to ask an expert for help.”

From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein