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Surface and area in mathematics: a little terminology | Tangente
Everyday language often conflates the notions of surface and area.
Football pitch as a unit of area | Tangente
In recent years, a new unit for measuring area has emerged. Let's see how to convert between units.
Richard Serra: sculptures and surfaces at the Guggenheim | Tangente
In his installation "The Matter of Time," Richard Serra takes us on a journey through eight monumental sculptures, created between 1994 and 2005 and installed in a gallery at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain.
Arata Isozaki: Pritzker Prize and geometry | Tangente
Japanese architect Arata Isokazi has just been awarded the Pritzker Prize, architecture's very own "Nobel Prize."
Worlds without thickness
First defined as parts of space described using two parameters, surfaces can also be viewed as worlds in their own right: self-contained universes whose intrinsic properties can be studied without looking at them from the outside.
Darboux, the geometer who expanded the study of surfaces | Tangente
The Institut Henri Poincaré hosted an exhibition entitled "The Depth of Surfaces," devoted to the mathematician Gaston Darboux. Its scientific curator was Barnabé Croizat, a specialist in this great French geometer.