To many in the United States, advanced forms of mathematics are a terrifying maze of numbers, symbols, graphs, and hypotheticals that render our world more complex than simple observations would ...

In the early 1960s George Gamow wrote a popular book 1 that contained a very suggestive observation about the effectiveness of pure mathematics in physics. As a conclusion he remarked that “only ...

US mathematician Dennis Sullivan has won one of the most prestigious awards in mathematics, for his contributions to topology — the study of qualitative properties of shapes — and related fields.

Endperiodic maps, splitting sequences, and branched surfaces. Michael Landry and Chi Cheuk Tsang. To appear in Geometry and Topology. 144 pages. A polynomial invariant for veering triangulations.