From stone circles to Mozart’s obsession with numbers and Zaha Hadid’s architecture influenced by mathematical logic and ...

By transforming quotations into evidence, close reading served as way to transform postwar criticism into a specialized ...

This week, explore a medieval manuscript, spy an underwater volcano ready to erupt off the US West Coast, encounter T. rex’s ancestor, and more.

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An exhibition shows the beauty and disparity of maps in a time of rapid discovery, when the shape of the known world was ever ...

The Washington Post’s longtime book critic Michael Dirda took a break from reading, then delved into some favorites and new ...

Over the years, mathematicians found that the twisted shapes exist in dimensions 2, 6, 14, 30 and 62. They also showed that ...