Modular arithmetic has been a major concern of mathematicians
for at least 250 years, and is still a very active topic of current
research. In this article, I will explain what modular arithmetic
is, illustrate why it is of importance for...
How do we navigate the vast amount of data at our disposal? How
do we choose a movie to watch, out of the 75,000 movies available
on Netflix? Or a new book to read, among the 800,000 listed on
Amazon? Or which news articles to read, out of the...
There are two kinds of creation myths: those where life arises out of the mud, and those where life falls from the sky. In this creation myth, computers arose from the mud, and code fell from the sky.
Fields Medalist Maryam
Mirzakhani, former Member in the School of Mathematics, gives
the third of three 2012 Marston Morse Lectures on Dynamics on the
Moduli Spaces of Curves.
Fields Medalist Maryam
Mirzakhani, former Member in the School of Mathematics, gives
the second of three 2012 Marston Morse Lectures on Dynamics on the
Moduli Spaces of Curves.
Fields Medalist Maryam
Mirzakhani, former Member in the School of Mathematics, gives
the first of three 2012 Marston Morse Lectures on Dynamics on the
Moduli Spaces of Curves.
One of the oldest subjects in mathematics is the study of
Diophantine equations, i.e., the study of whole number (or
fractional) solutions to polynomial equations. It remains one of
the most active areas of mathematics today. Perhaps the most
basic...
In 1900, David Hilbert published a list of twenty-three open
questions in mathematics, ten of which he presented at the
International Congress of Mathematics in Paris that year. Hilbert
had a good nose for asking mathematical questions as the
ones...
The above photograph (ca. 1958) of Marston Morse (1892–1977),
Professor in the School of Mathematics, and his wife Louise is a
rare image from one of two albums compiled by Louise Morse over
seven decades. It is unusual in that it includes Louise...
The stability of the solar system is one of the oldest problems
in theoretical physics, dating back to Isaac Newton. After Newton
discovered his famous laws of motion and gravity, he used these to
determine the motion of a single planet around the...
