It took 125 years, but in 2025 a team of mathematicians discovered the solution to a long-puzzling problem about the ...

In the Fall I'll be starting teaching again, after a semester away on sabbatical and then enjoying teaching relief during my first semester at Penn. I'll be teaching a course that I truly love, and ...

New findings are fueling an old suspicion that fundamental particles and forces spring from strange eight-part numbers called “octonions.” In 2014, a graduate student at the University of Waterloo, ...

This is the first part of a two course graduate sequence in analytical methods to solve ordinary and partial differential equations of mathematical physics. Review of Advanced ODE’s including power ...

At the frontiers of theoretical physics, many of the most popular ideas have one thing in common: they begin from a mathematical framework that seeks to explain more things than our currently ...

When the greatest mathematician alive unveils a vision for the next century of research, the math world takes note. That's exactly what happened in 1900 at the International Congress of Mathematicians ...

You will never be able to prove every mathematical truth. For me, this incompleteness theorem, discovered by Kurt Gödel, is one of the most incredible results in mathematics. It may not surprise ...

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Join a University ranked in the UK top five for both physics and mathematics research (THE analysis of REF 2021) with an excellent reputation for teaching and learning. If you love the challenge of ...