A new field of concentration, Applied Mathematics, will be open to the class of 1967 next fall, the Committee on Applied Mathematics announced this week. Six upperclassmen, all candidates for Honors, ...

You can probably think of a time when you’ve used math to solve an everyday problem, such as calculating a tip at a restaurant or determining the square footage of a room. But what role does math play ...

Source: Slide 15 of a PowerPoint presentation, accompanying a June 2016 OECD report, “Equations and Inequalities.” Click here for a larger version. Abstract, pure math — solving disembodied equations ...

Beginning this academic year, the Applied Mathematics Graduate Program will join the Math Alliance Graduate Program Group (GPG). The Math Alliance was created in 2001 as a collaboration between the ...

On October 30th, the six finalists for the 2025 CWI Best Thesis in Applied Math Award pitched their research. After careful deliberation, the jury awarded the prize in the BSc category to Rick Scheper ...

As more than 30 million American elementary schoolchildren pack their backpacks to head back to school this fall, one subject just might be the most dreaded of all—mathematics. A distaste for ...

Alan Veliz-Cuba has received funding from the Simons Foundation and the American Mathematical Society for some of his research. You can probably think of a time when you’ve used math to solve an ...

Keith Perkins, foreground, works through an algorithm for calculating ladder rung spacing in Linn-Benton Community College’s math for welders class. Credit: Jan Sonnenmair for The Hechinger Report The ...

Johns Hopkins University math students are creating tools to support a Baltimore food distribution effort for those in need. Through the course Mathematics for a Better World, the students are working ...

This last month, the Department of Applied Mathematics announced the recipient of the Rudy Horne Memorial Fellowship: graduate student Chi “April” Tran! April is a first year student in the Applied ...