Avi Wigderson, an award-winning computer scientist and mathematician, gave a lecture on “randomness” at Stony Brook ...

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 ...

Geometry may be one of the oldest branches of mathematics, but it’s much more than a theoretical subject. It’s part of our everyday lives, says Professor Jennifer Taback, and key to understanding many ...

John Urschel, a doctoral candidate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an offensive lineman with the Baltimore Ravens, will deliver a lecture at the University of Delaware from 10:30-11:30 ...

The lectures to be presented as part of the series on the Free Will Theorem are: • March 23-- "Free Will and Determinism in Science and Philosophy" • March 30-- "The Paradox of Kochen and Specker" • ...

I didn’t find math particularly exciting when I was in high school. To be honest, I only studied it when I went to university because it initially seemed quite easy to me. But in my very first math ...

John McGreevy is Professor of Physics at the University of California, San Diego. He is a theoretical physicist with interests in quantum matter, string theory, and ...

Hundreds of faculty and students crowded into Science Center Hall D this week to hear a Princeton University computer science professor limn the secrets of machine learning. Sanjeev Arora, a two-time ...

A Downey High School math teacher’s use of technology in the classroom has won him this year’s superintendent’s vision award. Jose De La Torre was recognized for integrating technology in his math ...