A scholar from Kenyon College, Professor of Mathematics Carol Schumacher, is coming to Bates to give two back-to-back talks on Sept. 29 as part of the Annual Richard W. Sampson Lecture Series. Both ...

University of Bristol physics professor Sir Michael Berry visited the University of Wisconsin on Monday to for a seminar on geometric phase. The seminar was part of the Chemistry Department’s Willard ...

Michael P. Brenner, the Glover Professor of Applied Mathematics and Applied Physics at Harvard University, will give three lectures on campus as part of the Department of Mathematic’s annual Charles ...

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 ...

Adriana Salerno will deliver the 82nd Harry S. Kieval Lecture at Cal Poly Humboldt on Thursday at 7 p.m. in Room 135 of the Science-B Building on the Cal Poly Humboldt campus. The public is welcome to ...

THIS book contains a series of lectures on some of the fundamental principles of mathematics, treated from the most recent and scientific point of view; that is, mainly with reference to their ...

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 ...

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 ...