The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Mathematics started with numbers—clear, concrete, intuitive. Over the last two centuries, however, it has become a far more abstract ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 2003, a German graduate student named Britta Späth encountered the McKay conjecture, one of the biggest open problems in the ...

The aim of the Northwestern Student Chapter of SIAM is to provide a platform for students involved in science to interact with one another. SIAM ESAM graduate students form the core of Northwestern's ...

Lie groups furnish a unifying framework in which group theory and smooth geometry intersect. As smooth manifolds endowed with a group operation that is infinitely differentiable, Lie groups serve as ...

Collaboration can’t just be assigned—it needs to be nurtured, and students can learn to assess their progress in building ...