Volume 51 | Number 08 | October 2018

Untangling DNA with Knot Theory

At AN18, Mariel Vazquez employed topological concepts from knot theory to demonstrate that cells detangle DNA with optimal efficiency.

The Unwinding Number

Early programmers had to write their own procedures to implement complex arithmetic and transcendental functions.

It is with great sadness that we note the passing of mathematician Gregory Anthony Kriegsmann in May 2018.

Pam Cook spoke about molecular-level modeling of materials that exhibit similarly schizoid behavior during her AN18 Julian Cole Lectureship.

Recent advances in information theory enable our understanding of the dynamics of abrupt climate changes.

Kai Berger works as a computational scientist and machine vision researcher at Genius Sports Media.

Next year marks the 50th anniversary of the NSF-CBMS Regional Research Conferences in the Mathematical Sciences.

Hardware and software vendors and standards committees are addressing the challenge of reproducibility.

In this month's column on "Mathematical Curiosities," Mark Levi contemplates moon angles and the lunar tilt illusion.

The International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics is pleased to announce the winners of the five ICIAM prizes for 2019.

The National Science Foundation continues its investment in programs that directly advance the STEM workforce.

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