If you've ever been lost, you've experienced the frustrations of folding up a map. L. Mahadevan, a professor of applied mathematics at Harvard University, has studied wrinkles and folds, and joins ...

Sure you could hide your maps on the edge of your notebooks, but if you want access to full maps but don't want to look like the tourist wrestling with an unwieldy map, then you need to learn some ...

Anyone trying to refold an opened road map is wrestling with the same sort of challenges confronted by origami designers and sheet metal benders. The problem of returning a creased sheet to its neatly ...

Crumpled City maps are designed to be casually balled up in your bag, instead of fastidiously (and always incorrectly) folded. I have a love/hate relationship with maps: I love to get lost in their ...

Mathematicians have not yet succeeded in finding a formula for the number of different ways a road map can be folded, given n creases in the paper. Some notion of the complexity of this question can ...

For each integer q ≥ 0, there is a cohomology theory A₁ such that the zero cohomology group $A_1^0(N)$ of a manifold N of dimension n is a certain group of ...

The discovery that real estate agent Matthew Greenberg made when he stepped inside a Mount Washington cottage will put the Los Angeles Public Library on the map. Stashed everywhere in the ...