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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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" • ...

In the mid-19th century, Bernhard Riemann conceived of a new way to think about mathematical spaces, providing the foundation ...

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 ...