Mathematics

Alex Nickerson is at bat as Jordan Smith pitches to him on Briggs Field at MIT. The two middle school students are participating in MIT's summer Science of Baseball program, which, each morning, teaches them things like how a curve ball works and how to calculate player statistics. In the afternoon, they put their new knowledge to work on the field.

MIT baseball program hits home run for learning

Schooling the boys of summer in math, science

July 26, 2007

MIT lecturers top the iTunes U top ten

July 25, 2007

MIT encryption pioneer Rivest wins Marconi Prize

July 17, 2007

Professors Roman Stocker, left, and John Bush display a mixture of oil, detergent and water. Their research explains what happens when an oil drop containing a water-insoluble surfactant is placed on a water surface.

Case closed: MIT gumshoes solve "throbbing" oil mystery

July 17, 2007

Mathematics awards

June 6, 2007

MLK professor teaches 'excitement' of solving math--and life--problems

May 2, 2007

Five from MIT are Guggenheim Fellows

April 11, 2007

Math of elections says voters win with 'winner take all'

April 10, 2007

This graphic shows one visualization of the E8 group recently mapped by mathematicians. The graphic was computer-generated by John Sembridge, based on a drawing by Peter McMullen.

Congress commends E8 math team

March 28, 2007

MIT visualization of the chaotic tangle underlying turbulence. Area in black box represents a blown-up portion of the fluid showing the self-similarity of the tangle.

MIT reveals the tangle under turbulence

March 28, 2007

This graphic describes a mathematical structure similar to but much smaller than E8.

Math research team maps E8

Calculation on paper would cover Manhattan

March 18, 2007

Mrowka receives Veblen geometry prize

February 7, 2007

Research collaboration and math model guided intern through 'fast fashion' world

December 20, 2006

A new MIT model simulates the flow of natural gas through production systems such as the one shown above.

MIT math model could aid natural gas production

November 21, 2006

$Partial view of the Mandelbrot set fractal.$

'Father of Fractals' takes on the stock market

Seeing a snowflake pattern in the NASDAQ

November 16, 2006

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