The Thin Lens Formula and Springs

In his latest column on "Mathematical Curiosities," Mark Levi discusses the thin lens formula.

From Navigation on the High Seas to Magnets at High Temperatures

Why are airlines not using world maps on which the flight route between two cities is a straight line segment?

Michael Mazzoleni described the use of numerical simulations to analyze predator-prey dynamics of dinoflagellates at MPE16.

Clint Dawson discussed various tools used in studying potential mitigation systems to reduce hurricane storm surge at MPE16.

Mark Levi asks if a wheel, held by the axle and having zero spin, can turn around the axis and explains a geometric theorem about cones.

Major events such as the German Oktoberfest in Munich are a huge challenge both for the organizers and the security forces.

The 2016 I.E. Block Community Lecture emphasized the importance of touching, seeing, and feeling to central concepts in applied mathematics.

The authors describe a new form of robotic microscopy that can track cells over unusually long lengths of time to observe neurodegeneration.

Tim Chartier discusses the mathematics responsible for the animation in Pixar favorites like Finding Dory, Monsters, Inc., and more.

Mathematics of Planet Earth (MPE) is an emerging area of research in the mathematical sciences.

Methods used to construct networks and the resulting bias and incompleteness draw limited attention.

Imagining objects with negative mass may seem like a scholastic exercise, but we're able to interpret some real physical phenomena.

In 1998, Stephen Smale published a list of 18 challenge problems for the 21st century.

The last installment of our intro to the SIAGA journal explores Bézier curves, the Rubik’s Cube, and a Kummer surface.

A simple but illuminating equivalence exists between Newtonian mechanics of a particle and the statics of Hookean springs.