When Lisa Piccirillo solved a decades-old mystery about the “Conway knot,” she had to overcome the knot’s uncanny ability to hoodwink some of the most powerful tools mathematicians have devised. Known ...

Informally, a dynamic system is any physical system that evolves with time (e.g., a pendulum, a planet orbiting the sun, the weather, etc). From a more mathematically precise perspective, one can ...

With a newly discovered mathematical tool, researchers are hoping to gain unprecedented insight into the structure of complex ...

WHATEVER opinions may be felt as to the desirability of University Presses competing with private firms in swelling the already too large flood of school geometries or issuing cram books for ...