On Aug. 24, Richard Schwartz, professor of mathematics, published a preprint paper to arXiv.org that proved a conjecture that has stumped mathematicians for nearly 50 years: What is the shortest strip ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Visually, the “Klein bottle” doesn’t seem all that impressive. On first glance it looks like a trendy Japandi-style vase. And yet ...

Imagine holding a strip of paper. You give it a half-twist and then tape its ends together. The shape you’re now holding is the ticket to a world where surfaces have only one side and boundaries blur ...

The “Ideas for Expo” column in The Spokesman-Review answered a question that readers 50 years later might also be asking: What does the Expo ’74 symbol mean? The answer: It’s a triangular Mobius strip ...