Downwind, Faster Than the Wind

A regular sailboat cannot exceed wind speed when going dead downwind, i.e., exactly in the wind’s direction.

Coffee Roasting, Mathematical Modelling, and Asymptotic Analysis

The perfect cup of coffee depends on the origin of the coffee beans, how they are roasted, and the hardness of the water.

The Survey and Review section of the latest issue of SIAM Review contains two interesting papers.

The latest SIAM Review's Research Spotlights section contains two papers.

The latest issue of SIAM Review contains two articles in the Education section.

Oscillations are ubiquitous in nature — ranging from fireflies flashing in synchrony to brain cells firing in harmony.

Voluntary mass vaccination is a fundamental measure in achieving widespread herd immunity and preventing significant disease outbreaks.

An airplane’s environmental control system is a complex assembly of components having a broad remit.

Understanding the macroscopic behavior of a large system with many interacting dynamical parts is of broad interest.

Olivier Pironneau overviews the features and capabilities of FreeFem++, which uses the finite element method.

In this column, Mark Levi describes an alternative (to the standard) way of finding the parabola of safety.

Asthma does not have a single initiating cause, making models that start with cause and end with effect impossible to formulate.

At AN17, Christine Heitsch described mathematical methods that can be used for RNA structure prediction.

At AN17, Weijian Zhang presented Etymo, a new, scalable graphic search engine for data scientists that yields more accurate results.

Nick Higham reflects on his early experiences and wonders how computers have simplified mathematical writing.