In the late 19th century, Karl Weierstrass invented a fractal-like function that was decried as nothing less than a ...

Researchers discovered that our ability to recognize trees in art is linked to a mathematical principle called the branch ...

The Hairy Ball theorem, proved by Henri Poincaré in 1885, demonstrates that it's impossible to create a perfectly smooth hair ...

It's only fitting that the company generating electricity by loop-de-looping a ground-tethered winged drone is from North Carolina. After all, North Carolina is the birthplace of human flight.

A recent study suggests that the mathematical equations used to describe physical laws follow a surprising pattern—a pattern that aligns with Zipf’s law, a principle from linguistics. This discovery ...

Our weekly colloquium with Haverford College brings distinguished mathematics researchers together to discuss their work. The location alternates between the two mathematics departments. Talks are ...