A few minutes into a 2018 talk at the University of Michigan, Ian Tobasco picked up a large piece of paper and crumpled it into a seemingly disordered ball of chaos. He held it up for the audience to ...

Mathematical patterns reveal profound truths about the universe and, surprisingly, about our inner lives as well. These five visual math concepts offer unique frameworks for understanding our behavior ...

A University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Department of Mathematics faculty member has received a $211,262 grant from the National Science Foundation to study a specialized area of mathematics with ...

Architect and mathematician Christopher Alexander died at age 85 on March 17. “The end of an era,” one of my colleagues remarked. She was perhaps referring to Alexander’s influential trajectory of ...

In our field of applied mathematics, the long, human process of trial and error — not just the solutions themselves — is ...