It’s not often a math paper goes viral, but a new preprint from a theoretical physicist at Poland’s Jagiellonian University ...
BYU mathematics professor Doug Corey and a team of students created a YouTube channel devoted to applying theoretical math concepts to real-world problems. Imagine this: the BYU Cougars men’s ...
Interdisciplinary visual artist Timea Tihanyi and mathematician Jayadev Athreya, who are collaborating on Axiomatic. Photo: Clare McGrane, GeekWire. At first glance, Timea Tihanyi and Jayadev Athreya ...
Monstrous moonshine, a quirky pattern of the monster group in theoretical math, has a shadow -- umbral moonshine. Mathematicians have now proved this insight, known as the Umbral Moonshine Conjecture, ...
The more complex, the better. Sitan Chen, 20, loves good theory – when it comes to math, computer science and music. The six-time Carnegie Hall classical pianist from Johns Creek, Georgia, is ...
Classically there is a clear distinction between theoretical and applied mathematics in the classification of different fields in the mathematical sciences. Bernd Sturmfels at the Max Planck Institute ...
Generations of children have pleaded with their parents, “Why do I need to study math?” They are told of such practical uses as counting money, following recipes, or comparing baseball averages. Ngo ...
Mathematics, histopathology and genomics converge to confirm that the most aggressive clear cell renal cell carcinomas display low levels of intratumour heterogeneity, i.e. they contain fewer distinct ...