During a recent interview, Penelope Hunter-Stiebel had a quick reaction to the suggestion that rococo can be described as a “hyperdecorative” style in art, furnishings, and architecture. “It doesn’t ...

The Lagrangian description of absolutely continnous curves of probability measures on the real line is analyzed. Whereas each such curve admits a Lagrangian description as a well-defined flow of its ...

Is there a term for the shape shown above: a smooth, continuous curve with three axes of symmetry? And if anyone could share the equation for this curve, I would be very grateful. The plate appears to ...

New approaches to creating shapes promise to simplify the design work behind the aesthetic surfaces found on consumer products. Pity the poor designers trying to generate eye-popping shapes for ...