Pi Day was first formally celebrated in 1988 at the San Francisco Exploratorium, when staff physicist Larry Shaw organized events around March 14, or...
IntroductionElliptic curves are among the more beguiling objects in modern mathematics. They don’t seem complicated, but they form an expressway between the math that...
IntroductionRepetition doesn’t always have to be humdrum. In mathematics, it is a powerful force, capable of generating bewildering complexity.
Even after decades of study, mathematicians...
IntroductionIt is a truth of both physics and everyday experience that things fall apart. Ice melts. Buildings crumble. Any object, if you wait long...
Semiconductor Engineering sat down with Larry Pileggi, Coraluppi Head and Tanoto Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, and the winner...
Quanta Magazine Introduces the Revamped Hyperjumps Math Game
Mathematics is often considered a challenging subject for many students. However, Quanta Magazine, a popular science and...
IntroductionIn Disney’s 1959 film Donald in Mathmagic Land, Donald Duck, inspired by the narrator’s descriptions of the geometry of billiards, energetically strikes the cue...
IntroductionImagine that a grid of hexagons, honeycomb-like, stretches before you. Some hexagons are empty; others are filled by a 6-foot tall column of solid...
