UD professor, alumnus featured in videos on real-world problems solved using math

Last week, a story of an unusual nature managed to break into the regular news cycle. It was a story about math--more specifically, the discovery of a five-sided shape that can be used to cover an area without...

Internships Connect Math Students to New Career Paths. Rachel LevyJul 7, 2015. The variety of math-focused jobs in business, industry, and government is increasing, a trend recently highlighted in the popular press. For example, a Career Cast article about the best jobs of 2015 has quotes from ...

Typical dynamical systems can either have simple trajectories, such as steady states or periodic or quasiperiodic orbits, or they can be chaotic. While simple behavior is well understood, chaos is defined in so many different ways that is it confusing and difficult to get a reasonable answer to ...

A prodigy grows up to become one of the greatest mathematicians in the world.

The last time the U.S. won the international math tournament, Bill Clinton was president and Ace of Base was top of the pop charts.

This year’s SIAM Conference on CSE featured a new attraction: “SIAM Communication Doctors,” a booth for people wishing to craft effective messages about their research—for communication to future employers, at outreach events, or for the press. Graduate students, postdocs, and faculty visited the booth, hoping that booth doctors could turn their research summaries into good stories that would appeal to the public. At the booth, reporter Flora Lic...

Apple digital assistant getting buzz for question 'what is zero divided by zero.'