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 ...
Avi Wigderson, an award-winning computer scientist and mathematician, gave a lecture on “randomness” at Stony Brook ...
Einstein's 1917 paper, "Cosmological Considerations in the General Theory of Relativity," applied general relativity to the universe as a whole, establishing a firmer basis for cosmology. To create a ...
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 ...
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" • ...
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 ...
Symplectic geometry is a relatively new field with implications for much of modern mathematics. Here’s what it’s all about. In the early 1800s, William Rowan Hamilton discovered a new kind of ...