For four decades, a quiet boundary in pure mathematics kept a powerful theorem locked inside the safe world of finite quantities. Now a new result known as Sebestyen’s theorem has pushed that boundary ...
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The Bermuda Mathematics Academy will host its second public lecture, “A Piece of Cake: Everything About Fractions,” on Saturday [Dec 6] from 3:00pm to 4:00pm. A spokesperson said, “The Bermuda ...
SALUDA — South Carolina’s education leaders have a simple message for their state: “Every student is a math student.” They’re tired of the idea that some kids just aren’t good at math, or that it’s ...
Amid a sea of students at a lecture hall in Nanyang Technological University (NTU), a young bespectacled boy listens curiously. At just seven years old, Theodore Kwan has been attending freshmen ...
Since its establishment, nurturing and supporting early career researchers has been a key part of the Hong Kong Institute for Advanced Study (HKIAS) mission. To inspire young academic leaders and ...
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 lecture on Tuesday is intended for all those interested in mathematics. The remaining lectures are intended for a more mathematically experienced audience. Refreshments will be served 30 minutes ...
My undergraduate diploma from Moscow was in Applied Mathematics and Physics. I got my PhD in Caltech, in Applied Maths. My PhD thesis was in the area of Hamiltonian Mechanics, at the crossroads of ...
One question has preoccupied humankind for thousands of years: Do infinities exist? More than 2,300 years ago Aristotle distinguished between two types of infinity: potential and actual. The former ...