Here's a stumper: How many parts can you divide a line into? It seems like a simple question. You can cut it in half. Then you can cut those lines in half, then cut those lines in half again. Just how ...

Brice Marden, who died this week at the age of 84, was a beautiful man who made beautiful paintings. They began as rich, opaque, monochromatic fields laced with highlights, flickers, nuances of ...

FARADAY, describing his experiment which established a fundamental law of electrical science, — the induction of electric currents, — was asked, ‘What use is it?’ To which he gave the classic ...

Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World, by Amir Alexander Robyn Arianrhod on a compelling tale of Jesuits, geometry and heresy in the turbulent 17th century ...

Infinitesimal is a new Local Legend introduced in Genshin Impact version 5.5. It is also one of the hardest bosses to defeat, as it has two different shields. The boss also has some challenging ...

To the prospective reader, a subtitle is to a book what a carnival barker is to a midway: the step-right-up pitchman who peddles a mixture of awe, enlightenment and—no less important—bang for the buck ...