John Etnyre receives funding from the National Science Foundation and the Elaine M. Hubbard Distinguished Faculty Award When you look at your surrounding environment, it might seem like you’re living ...

How can the behavior of elementary particles and the structure of the entire universe be described using the same mathematical concepts? This question is at the heart of recent work by the ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Mathematical evidence indicates that our universe is flat, but it could be infinitely big, as well. You can figure out if an object is flat with a ...

Observations show the universe appears flat, yet its true size and global shape beyond the observable horizon may remain ...

Start off in any direction and fly through the universe. Out of our solar system, beyond the edge of the Milky Way, through the forest of galaxies that make up our Local Group into the wilderness of ...

When you look at your surrounding environment, it might seem like you’re living on a flat plane. After all, this is why you can navigate a new city using a map: a flat piece of paper that represents ...

Anti-de Sitter (AdS) geometry and hyperbolic manifolds form an intricate and influential domain within modern geometry, with profound implications in both theoretical physics and pure mathematics. The ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) John Etnyre, Georgia Institute of Technology (THE CONVERSATION) When you look at your ...

Mathematics and physics share a close, reciprocal relationship. Mathematics offers the language and tools to describe physical phenomena, while physics drives the development of new mathematical ideas ...