The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

A new NURBS-based algorithm is revolutionizing gridshell design by enabling faster, smoother, and more flexible shape-finding. What once required 90 hours of GPU time now takes just 90 minutes on a ...

All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in general, research mathematicians don’t need to think about it ...

With a black cape billowing behind him, Jerrold E. Hogle, distinguished professor of English at the University of Arizona and an expert in Gothic and Romantic literature, took the stage Wednesday ...

What does connect-the-dots have to do with watching a Pixar film? More than you might think. A connect-the-dots page starts with nothing but some labelled points. As each dot is joined to the next, ...

Acclaimed as a mathematical genius, Ada Lovelace is said to have understood the potential of the first computer blueprints better than their inventor. A serendipitous friendship with the mathematician ...

Shreyaan Chhabra, a computer science major, said he chose the class because he likes gaming and heard that Moshiri was a good ...