Mathematics

Two from MIT in top 5 at Putnam math contest

April 2, 2009

Math professor discovers chaos on a 'fluid trampoline'

Latest milestone in MIT's contributions to chaos theory

December 22, 2008

Numbers and words

New book chronicles rise of MIT math department

December 3, 2008

Kenneth Hoffman, former math department head, 77

October 1, 2008

MIT Professor Tom Peacock in lab where his group performed experiments on a new approach to unsteady flow separation.

MIT solves 100-year-old engineering problem

Insights on fluid flow could impact fuel efficiency, more

September 24, 2008

MIT associate professor Josh Tenenbaum and his former student, Charles Kemp, have developed a computer algorithm that can select the best type of structure to fit a set of data. Such structures, shown here, include linear order, rings and clusters.

MIT model helps computers sort data more like humans

August 25, 2008

The backswimmer Notonecta hangs inverted from the water's surface. Its respiratory bubble covers the bulk of its body.

Life in a bubble

Research shows how insects use trapped oxygen to breathe underwater

July 29, 2008

Bucsela Prize winners Anand Deopurkar, left, and Galyna Dobrovolska. Dobrovolska was also a co-winner for the Alice T. Schafer Prize.

Mathematics awards

June 4, 2008

MIT researchers have figured out how the phalarope, a shorebird with a long, narrow beak, transports its food from the tip of its beak to its mouth. Here the bird feeds by pecking at the water surface.

MIT solves gravity-defying bird beak mystery

Shorebirds take advantage of surface tension to capture prey

May 15, 2008

Department of Mathematics hosting Clay Research Conference May 12-13

May 7, 2008

Edward Lorenz, father of chaos theory and butterfly effect, dies at 90

April 16, 2008

MIT Professor of Mathematics Gigliola Staffilani, one of the organizers of the Women in Math conference taking place April 12-13 at MIT, teaches a course on multivariable calculus.

MIT conference celebrates women in math

April 7, 2008

Pedro Reis, an instructor in applied mathematics at MIT, and colleagues have reported the formulation and physics behind the pattern created by adhesive tearing. In this image, Reis demonstrates the way that adhesive tape tears in a triangular shape coming a point.

Researchers make a point of explaining 'the wallpaper problem'

March 30, 2008

Film loosely based on MIT blackjack team opens Friday

March 28, 2008

MIT third overall in Putnam math competition

March 27, 2008

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