This book studies the differential geometry of surfaces with the goal of helping students make the transition from the standard university curriculum to a type of mathematics that is a unified whole, ...

Originating with Andreas Floer in the 1980s, Floer homology has proved to be an effective tool in tackling many important problems in three- and four-dimensional geometry and topology ... there are ...

The Mathematics of Shock Reflection-Diffraction and von ... a subject which rests at the center of contemporary complex algebraic geometry. This book is the first comprehensive exploration of ...

But when kids become immersed in math games and activities, they learn in spite of their misgivings. Make your math lessons ...

There’s a new book out this week, a biography of Roger Penrose by Patchen Barss, with the title The Impossible Man: Roger Penrose and the cost of genius. Penrose is one of the greatest figures in ...

The Langlands Conjectures, named after Canadian mathematician (and former Yale professor) Robert Langlands, suggested in the 1960s that deep, unproven connections exist between number theory, harmonic ...

Yale professor Sam Raskin led a team to prove the geometric Langlands conjecture, solving a major part of one of math’s most ...