W hen most people think of shapes, they imagine a triangle, a rectangle, or maybe even a fancier- sounding rhombus or trapezoid. But to mathematicians, shapes encompass a vast universe of surprising ...

The investor, after making sweeping claims about H-1B visa holders’ skill levels, alleged that most cannot solve sixth-grade algebra.

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That’s exactly what happened in 1900 at the International Congress of Mathematicians at Sorbonne University in Paris.