Mathematics Department convinced famous YouTuber to speak on campus and enthralled a full house with visualizations of ...
Born in Paris in 1976, Nalini Anantharaman is a leading French mathematician known for her pioneering work in quantum chaos and spectral geometry. A professor at the Collège de France, she has ...
Highlights include: part one in series The Billionaires Age — the one per cent now owns slightly more than half of the world’s wealth; to examining The Matilda Effect; to the complicated story of the ...
Temitope Jaiyeola, has emphasised the need for targeted support for postgraduate students and early-career lecturers of mathematics, saying the subject was for everyone. He also advocated building the ...
The Bermuda Mathematics Academy will host its second public lecture, “A Piece of Cake: Everything About Fractions,” on Saturday [Dec 6] from 3:00pm to 4:00pm. A spokesperson said, “The Bermuda ...
Can you drill a hole in a cube that an identical cube could fall through? Prince Rupert of the Rhine first asked this question in the 17th century, and he soon found out the answer is yes. One can ...
SALUDA — South Carolina’s education leaders have a simple message for their state: “Every student is a math student.” They’re tired of the idea that some kids just aren’t good at math, or that it’s ...
In mathematics, it often happens that baroque, highly technical results disguise beautiful underlying principles. This talk traces the path from the elegant contraction mapping principle to the rather ...
In the third century BCE, Apollonius of Perga asked how many circles one could draw that would touch three given circles at exactly one point each. It would take 1,800 years to prove the answer: eight ...
The lecture on Tuesday is intended for all those interested in mathematics. The remaining lectures are intended for a more mathematically experienced audience. Refreshments will be served 30 minutes ...
Crows are able to look at a handful of four-sided shapes and correctly distinguish those that exhibit geometric regularity from those that don't, according to a provocative new study. It's the first ...