Using concepts students are already familiar with — like how bottles vibrate — can serve as a helpful anchor for more complex topics.

Many natural and human-made networks, such as computer, biological or social networks have a connectivity structure that critically shapes their behavior. The academic field of network science is ...

Figure 1: The merger of two black holes can set off vibrations in the resulting black hole. RIKEN researchers have analyzed these vibrations using a versatile ...

A Rochester Institute of Technology researcher developed a mathematical method that shows climate change likely caused the rise and fall of an ancient civilization. In an article recently featured in ...

How can we guess the size of an extinct animal when all that remains are a few scattered bones? A study conducted by researchers at ULiège now provides an answer to this question. Using mathematical ...

The financial industry increasingly relies on large volumes of numerical data as financial products become more complex. As a result, analysts and financial engineers have turned to computational ...

A newly-developed mathematical method can detect geometric structure in neural activity in the brain. The method is a first step toward developing a new mathematical toolkit to uncover the structure ...

Mathematical methods courses have long been a fixture of physics departments, but they are rare in chemistry departments. Only a handful of chemistry departments offer them. The departments that do ...