An Electrician’s (or a Plumber’s) Proof of Euler’s Polyhedral Formula

Euler’s polyhedral formula describes the number of vertices, edges, and faces of a polyhedron without holes.

Short Codes Can Be Long on Insight

Nick Higham discusses some history of programming and coding, and asserts the benefits of short code.

Many questions related to food systems and food security can challenge our mathematical and computational skills.

In his latest column on "Mathematical Curiosities," Mark Levi presents a geometrical proof of a mathematician's bike.

While mass gatherings are usually safe, sometimes things can go unexpectedly and catastrophically wrong.

The authors create a model to address the empirical observation that jet lag is more severe for eastward travel than for westward travel.

Mary Silber applies mathematics to understand repetitive patterns of dry vegetation, which alternate rhythmically with bands of bare soil.

Mathematical study of aerial motion has led to the discovery of “513XD,” a tricky new dive with five full twists.

There is a surprising connection between a bike's catenary (the shape of the hanging chain) and the pursuit curve.

Shallow water equations have tremendous potential in tsunami forecasting and wave propagation phenomena.

The Activity Group on Data Mining and Analytics (SIAG/DMA) is one of SIAM's most vibrant and dynamic activity groups.

Fei-Fei Li discussed the development and future of AI during last week's Women in Data Science (WiDS) Conference.

The Human Rights Data Analysis Group works to collect and analyze data on the ground from conflict zones.

Kaitlyn Muller, a research faculty at Colorado State University, received the AFOSR Young Investigator Program award and grant.

Information theory, a branch at the intersection of mathematics and electrical engineering, can help monitor the structural health of bridges.