Mathematicianshave launched an ambitious campaign to raise the profile of their discipline, by opening a museum of maths in the UK. Geoff Wain, who is leading the initiative, points out that every other subject has a variety...
The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1992 brought an influx of Sovietmathematiciansto U.S. institutions, and those scholars' differing areas of specialization have changed the way math is studied and taught in this country, according to new...
If so, then last Tuesday evening we held a reception and lit the Tower orange to honor three of UT's greatest poets, all of whom recently have won extremely prestigious awards inmathematics. Ivo M. Babuska won the 2012...
In our previous conversation we touched on the potential for PhD levelmathematicsstudents to apply their knowledge to the challenges in the big data space. By the end of this second conversation it became apparent to me...
Today, the march for civil rights isn't about convincing Americans that racism is wrong. It is about getting money out of politics, so that the profit from institutional racism is eliminated.