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.
Posts published by “Charles Beall”
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.
The town of Empty Interior, NY was a place of spell-bound mathematics. Fantastical concepts like infinities acting the same as other numbers, or horrifying ones like a curse to fail every math exam for eternity, held a high degree of intrigue among the townspeople.
שָׁלוֹם עֲלֵיכֶם
ٱلسَّلَامُ عَلَيْكُمْ
Peace be upon you
One of the many poignant scenes in the Alan Turing biopic The Imitation Game occurs just after the famous mathematician and computer scientist cracks the Enigma Code.