When Lisa Piccirillo solved a decades-old mystery about the “Conway knot,” she had to overcome the knot’s uncanny ability to hoodwink some of the most powerful tools mathematicians have devised. Known ...

Informally, a dynamic system is any physical system that evolves with time (e.g., a pendulum, a planet orbiting the sun, the weather, etc). From a more mathematically precise perspective, one can ...

Chinese mathematicians have resolved the loose end of a “doomsday hypothesis” that had long puzzled the mathematical community. The feat was made possible through major computational methods which ...

Bryan Shader, a professor in UW’s Department of Mathematics and Statistics, is co-author of a research monograph titled “Inverse Problems and Zero Forcing for Graphs.” The book, published by the ...

Topological materials – materials whose surface properties are very different to those in their bulk – have come to the fore in recent years and are currently revolutionizing modern condensed matter ...