Intuitions regarding geometry are universal, study suggests
Wednesday, May 25, 2011 - 12:30
in Mathematics & Economics
All human beings may have the ability to understand elementary geometry, independently of their culture or their level of education. In a spherical universe, researchers found that Amazonian Indians gave better answers than French or North American participants who, by virtue of learning geometry at school, acquire greater familiarity with planar geometry than with spherical geometry.