I once again have the chance to write a For Math’s Sake column in the Valentine’s Day issue, which is a good opportunity to showcase the connections mathematics has with love and relationships, or share about how cultivating love for an at-times challenging and painfully frustrating subject can help in other areas of life.
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As we begin a new semester following a hopefully restful winter break, I have been thinking about the various concepts of stability, a term often used in mathematics and invoked to describe many aspects of life more generally.
To close out the semester, here is a conversation I had with fellow math PhD student Michael Catli. Michael and I both started the PhD in Fall 2023, although I knew him slightly before that, via a mutual friend at Seton Hall University, where Michael completed his undergraduate studies.
Many of us at Stevens have taken, are taking, or will take a course that involves fluid dynamics. These courses tend to be on the more challenging end, because fluids can behave in immensely complex ways, and it’s difficult even experimentally to understand this behavior, let alone build mathematical models to govern it or computational techniques to simulate it.
This past weekend, I traveled up to Boston for the first time, and visited some very good friends from my undergrad days at Stevens.
As a mathematician who tries to keep up with politics regularly, it may come as a surprise that I am not a huge fan of political polling.
From the earliest days, mathematics has typically received a hallowed treatment from those who have studied it. Plato, who studied a special set of five three-dimensional shapes now known as the Platonic solids, wrote that one of these, the dodecahedron, was used by the gods “for arranging the constellations on the whole of heaven.”
On September 9, Stevens Institute of Technology announced it had received the largest investment in university history — a $21 million commitment from the A.
This past week, I began reading The Maniac, a fictionalized biography of John von Neumann. While von Neumann is perhaps lesser known than some of his contemporaries — Albert Einstein, J.
The inspiration for this column comes not from the epic 1999 film The Matrix, as the title may suggest, but from an episode of Sean Carroll’s Mindscape podcast that I listened to over the summer.