Mathematics

Professors Roman Stocker, left, and John Bush display a mixture of oil, detergent and water. Their research explains what happens when an oil drop containing a water-insoluble surfactant is placed on a water surface.

Case closed: MIT gumshoes solve "throbbing" oil mystery

July 17, 2007

Mathematics awards

June 6, 2007

MLK professor teaches 'excitement' of solving math--and life--problems

May 2, 2007

Five from MIT are Guggenheim Fellows

April 11, 2007

Math of elections says voters win with 'winner take all'

April 10, 2007

This graphic shows one visualization of the E8 group recently mapped by mathematicians. The graphic was computer-generated by John Sembridge, based on a drawing by Peter McMullen.

Congress commends E8 math team

March 28, 2007

MIT visualization of the chaotic tangle underlying turbulence. Area in black box represents a blown-up portion of the fluid showing the self-similarity of the tangle.

MIT reveals the tangle under turbulence

March 28, 2007

This graphic describes a mathematical structure similar to but much smaller than E8.

Math research team maps E8

Calculation on paper would cover Manhattan

March 18, 2007

Mrowka receives Veblen geometry prize

February 7, 2007

Research collaboration and math model guided intern through 'fast fashion' world

December 20, 2006

A new MIT model simulates the flow of natural gas through production systems such as the one shown above.

MIT math model could aid natural gas production

November 21, 2006

$Partial view of the Mandelbrot set fractal.$

'Father of Fractals' takes on the stock market

Seeing a snowflake pattern in the NASDAQ

November 16, 2006

The building blocks of healthy collagen, above, begin with one-nanometer-sized amino acids, which form the universal 300-nanometer tropocollagen strands. Fibrils composed of those strands, in turn, make up the steel-cable-like collagen fibers.

Math model may aid study of collagen ailments

Tensile loading reveals nature's economy

November 14, 2006

George B. Thomas, mathematics professor and author, dies at 92

November 8, 2006

Strang receives national, international teaching prizes

His OCW course an online favorite, too

September 25, 2006

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