April 30, May 1 & 2, 2025, join us for the 35th Edition of the Myhill Lecture Series: Link homology and other applications of defect networks, featuring Mikhail Khovanov (Johns Hopkins University).

Many of us may be unaware of this, but mathematics is a dynamic discipline that can change over time, said Jennifer Taback in her inaugural lecture as the Isaac Henry Wing Professor of Mathematics, ...

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 ...

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" • ...

Jesús De Loera, professor of mathematics at University of California, Davis, will deliver the 77th semi-annual Harry S. Kieval Lecture at Cal Poly Humboldt on Thursday at 7 p.m. in Room 135 of the ...

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 ...

AT last there is an English edition, translated in America, of the first part of Prof. Reye's “Geometrie der Lage,” of which the first edition appeared as long ago as 1866. The methods followed offer ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bernhard Riemann was a man with a hypothesis. He was confident that it was true, probably. But he didn’t prove it. And attempts over the last century and a half by others to prove it have failed. A ...