As I wrap up the second year of the For Math’s Sake column, I want to get at some broad questions about mathematics I’ve been mulling over and share some thoughts that will hopefully lay the groundwork for more in-depth articles in the coming school year.
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The title of this article is a question I usually get asked. Admittedly, it’s a hard question to answer briefly since a sentence like, “I take graduate-level courses to gain a general background in the subject and then conduct original research in mathematics in order to defend a thesis,” leads to many follow-up questions.
Disclaimer: This article discusses topics of mental health, depression, and suicide
The Stevens motto, Per Aspera Ad Astra, or “Through Adversity, To the Stars,” is indeed a stellar choice of words to describe the experience at this tech school.
Some of my friends will ask me fairly often: “have you solved math yet?” If they ask me again in the coming days, I can confidently answer “YES!”
One of the goals for this column has been to catalog a series of mathematical concepts that have made a profound impact on all of STEM, not just the last letter of the acronym.
Ever since writing about the mathematics of love for Valentine’s Day last year, I have thought about writing an article that covers the mathematics of social connection in general.
In the last week of Fall 2023 classes, I attended a workshop-style conference titled “Mathematical Opportunities in Digital Twins,” abbreviated MATH-DT, and co-organized by my PhD advisor, Professor Kathrin Smetana.
Now that the holiday season is upon us, the spirit of gift-giving is in full swing. Meanwhile, we students are finishing up our Fall semester classes.
This weekend marks the beginning of the end-of-semester concert season, featuring the Stevens Orchestra’s performance tomorrow, with Concert Band (December 2), Jazz Band (December 8), and Choir (December 9) following Thanksgiving break.
In a shift back to personal math stories after the recent columns on national and global (tangentially) math-related events, I attended my first conference a couple weekends ago.