Dustin Potter (from left), professor of mathematics at Collin College, Andrea Barreiro, associate professor of mathematics at Southern Methodist University, and Brandilyn Stigler, associate professor ...

Due to the success of navigation devices and smartphones, digital maps are used widely in everyday life. They guide us safely along motorways or to the next bakery as long as the map is good and clear ...

Across the country, courts are wrestling with a fundamental question that has far-ranging impacts on democracy: How do you define an illegal partisan gerrymander? Political maps have come a long way ...

An international team of researchers has used mathematical models and maps to estimate the feasibility of eliminating malaria from countries that have the deadliest form of the disease. Two University ...

University of Pennsylvania mathematician Philip Gressman and 11 fellow professors from universities across the state have taken their math skills to court in hopes of ending the decades-old, ...

At least once a decade, state lawmakers rebuild North Carolina’s election maps. This process of redistricting carries a set of rules. But those rules – and how well mapmakers follow them – get intense ...