The irregular, swirling motion of fluids we call turbulence can be found everywhere, from stirring in a teacup to currents in ...

New research by University at Buffalo and University of Colorado Boulder mathematicians has uncovered and characterized novel two-dimensional wave patterns — waves that propagate along two directions ...

One hundred twenty years after it was first discovered, mathematicians have successfully mapped out a 248-dimensional object called E8. The complete description of E8—one of the most complicated ...

Hopefully you have come to the conclusion that this is in fact impossible. The reason for this is that length and area have different units, and quantities with different units cannot be added ...

Karen Uhlenbeck, whose seminal work helped launch an entire field of mathematics, was awarded the Abel Prize today in an announcement made from Oslo. The prize, created by the Norwegian Academy of ...

Dr. Uhlenbeck helped pioneer geometric analysis, developing techniques now commonly used by many mathematicians. By Kenneth Chang For the first time, one of the top prizes in mathematics has been ...

What fascinated me and brought me into analysis was the idea that you could have infinitely dimensional linear spaces that are not just the calculus of one or two variables, says Senior University ...