For centuries, mathematics was seen as the one discipline immune to contradiction — until one man proved it wasn’t. In the early 20th century, Kurt Gödel uncovered a flaw buried inside logic itself, ...

It starts with a question no gunner can answer in the moment: how many shells will it take to bring down that one-aircraft—a hundred, a thousand, or tens of thousands? The truth, learned the hard way ...

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Mathematics provides tools for explanation and analysis in the physical, engineering, business and social sciences. These tools can help in areas as diverse as planning and evaluating market research, ...

President Donald Trump bragged that he was delivering on affordability for Americans after Walmart shared that its annual Thanksgiving meal was cheaper than last year’s — though Internet sleuths are ...

Mathematics and computing is the study and analysis of abstract concepts, such as numbers and patterns. Mathematics is the language of choice for scientifically describing and modelling the universe ...

Knowledge gained by combining measurements and simulations leads to increased confidence in the safety of products, as Louise Wright explains.

Our students and our faculty understand the unique challenges and satisfactions that the careful study of mathematics and statistics offers. Mathematical ideas and results not only represent some of ...

Welcome to the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Wesleyan University. The department is located on the 6th floor of the Exley Science Center. There are 21 regular faculty in the ...

The Department of Mathematics at the California State University, Los Angeles consists of 16 tenure-track/tenured faculty and about 50 instructors and graduate teaching associates. We currently have ...

From the golden ratio to the Fibonacci sequence, this guide reveals the secret mathematics of design that every designer needs to know. Design has always had a close relationship with mathematics.

The Department of Mathematics consists of the Mathematical Institute and the Freudenthal Institute. Mathematical research and academic education become one within the Mathematical Institute. The ...