Light reflecting off the round rim creates a mathematically significant shape in this coffee cup Sarah Hart
The following is an extract from our Lost in Space-Time newsletter. Each month, we hand over the keyboard to a physicist or mathematician to tell you about fascinating ideas from their corner of the universe. You can sign up for Lost in Space-Time for free here.
The artist Paul Klee famously described drawing as 鈥渢aking a line for a walk鈥 鈥 but why stop there? Mathematicians have been wondering for five centuries what happens when you take circles and other curves for…
