Mathematics

The building blocks of healthy collagen, above, begin with one-nanometer-sized amino acids, which form the universal 300-nanometer tropocollagen strands. Fibrils composed of those strands, in turn, make up the steel-cable-like collagen fibers.

Math model may aid study of collagen ailments

Tensile loading reveals nature's economy

November 14, 2006

George B. Thomas, mathematics professor and author, dies at 92

November 8, 2006

Strang receives national, international teaching prizes

His OCW course an online favorite, too

September 25, 2006

U.S. economic health requires math, science literacy

Hockfield urges national math panel to invest in K-12

September 15, 2006

Undergraduate scholarships awarded

June 7, 2006

Mathematics awards

June 7, 2006

MIT algorithms were used to create this map, which shows a geological structure that traps oil many kilometers below the earth's surface.

Algorithms put to use in oil hunt

May 17, 2006

Readings, films portray math genius

May 3, 2006

Institute Professor Isadore Singer gave the annual Killian Lecture on Thursday, March 23, in Kirsch Auditorium. Singer received this year's James R. Killian Jr. Faculty Achievement Award.

Singer's Killian lecture puts geometry in perspective

March 28, 2006

Warbling whales speak a language all their own

March 22, 2006

Singer to give Killian lecture March 23

March 20, 2006

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November 16, 2005

MIT Professor Daniel W. Stroock, right, meets Stroock-Hertz Fellowship recipient Monika Schleier-Smith, center, an MIT graduate student working in quantum optics, and Hertz Fellow John Holzrichter, president of the Fannie and John Hertz Foundation, in Cambridge on Friday, Oct. 21.

Stroock meets Stroock fellow

October 26, 2005

The larva of a waterlily leaf beetle gets ready to propel itself up onto a leaf using a technique recently discovered by MIT researchers.

It's a bug's life: MIT team tells moving tale

September 28, 2005

Wang Dong, of Shanghai, China, spent six weeks at MIT this summer participating in the Research Science Institute, a program for high school students. He reported on his experience for the MIT News Office.

Top HS students explore math, space, more

August 11, 2005

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