Matching Vital Needs
Sommer Gentry explains how math can increase the number of living-donor kidney transplants and save lives. More...
Pulling Out (from) All the Stops
Hear Chris Solarz and Matt Ferrisi describe how they used graph theory to visit every New York subway stop in record time. More...
Working It Out
A math professor solves a mystery about the opening chord of the Beatles' "A Hard Day's Night." Read More...
Improving Stents
Math improves the design and materials used for stents. Read More...
Restoring Genius
Uncovering and discovering lost works of Archimedes. Read More...
Steering Towards Efficiency
Math helps NASCAR vehicles, and yours, run effectively. Read More...
Getting It Together
Analyzing collective motion in animals. Read More...
Hearing a Master’s Voice
The spools of wire above contain the only known live recording of the legendary folk singer Woody Guthrie. Read More...
Going with the Floes
A branch of mathematics called percolation theory helps explain how salt water travels through sea ice. Read More...
Bending It Like Bernoulli
Hear how computational fluid dynamics is used to analyze soccer kicks. Read More...
Predicting Storm Surge
Storm surge is often the most devastating part of a hurricane. Read More...
Targeting Tumors
Geometry, partial differential equations, and integer linear programming all allow doctors to inflict maximum damage to tumors. Read More...
Pinpointing Style
Mathematics is not just numbers and brute force calculation — there is considerable art and elegance to the subject. Read More...
Finding Fake Photos
Actually, they weren’t caught together at all — their images were put together with software. Read More...
Making movies come alive
Many movie animation techniques are based on mathematics. Read More...
Making Votes Count
The outcome of elections is often determined more by the voting procedure than by the votes themselves. Read More...
Folding for Fun and Function
Origami paper folding may not seem like a subject for mathematical investigation or one with sophisticated applications. Read More...
Unearthing Power Lines
Votes are cast by the full membership in each house of Congress, but much of the important maneuvering occurs in committees. Read More...
Putting Music on the Map
A recent mathematical breakthrough uses topology to represent musical chords as points in a space called an orbifold. Read More...
Tripping the Light - Fantastic!
Invisibility is no longer confined to fiction. Read More...
