Welcome to Stevens! As you begin your college journey (hopefully as a Duck!) I thought I would write this week’s column in a style more like “vintage” submissions from For Math’s Sake’s early days ...

This book is an interesting sign of the times. The gulf between pure and applied mathematics, in this country at any rate, has of recent years become more and more complete. Indeed there is no one who ...

When particle physicists try to model experiments, they confront an impossible calculation — an infinitely long equation that lies beyond the reach of modern mathematics. Fortunately, they can ...