Composed of both glass pieces and design sketches on loan from the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, 'Nature & Symbol' should open up new vistas for anyone interested in the art of botany. When you're done ...

SYMBOLS are both an aid and an obstacle to thought. Their brevity and simplicity may help us, working according to a fixed system, to perform mental operations which without their aid might be ...

HISTORIANS of mathematics attribute the first use of the cross x as a symbol for multiplication to William Oughtred (“Clavis Mathematicae”, London, 1631). See W. W. R. Ball's “Short Account ...

I found that those students who are falling asleep in class suddenly wake up when you add a human story behind the abstract symbols. Throughout the book, you discuss symbols that ultimately failed ...