The Abstract Science Team, from left: Henry Self, Chris Widman, Luke Stokes, and Joshua P. Ferguson. Credit: Kathleen Kazimir At 10 AM on Thursday, July 6, Chris Widman, Henry Self, Luke Stokes, and ...

I once suggested that monotheism and codified law, two features of Western culture absent in China, led to a notion of universal law, which influenced the development of abstract science in ancient ...

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ON Thursday evening, May 4, the first “James Forrest” Lecture was delivered at the Institution of Civil Engineers, by Dr. William Anderson, F.R.S. The subject was “the interdependence of abstract ...

My doctoral studies grew out of my frustrations as a science teacher. In 2002, I was required to teach Grade 6 students both mathematics and science at the Hong Kong International School. Of the large ...

Several fields of mathematics have developed in total isolation, using their own 'undecipherable' coded languages. Mathematicians now present 'big algebras,' a two-way mathematical 'dictionary' ...

People often believe the ability to think abstractly is distinctly human, but a new study in mallard ducklings shows otherwise. The baby fowl can decipher abstract relationships between shapes and ...

The primary authors of this post are Dirk B. Walther (University of Toronto) and Claudia Damiano (KU Leuven) Have you ever stood before an abstract painting, feeling a surge of emotion but struggling ...