Systems of rigid rods acquire rigidity via the addition of random additional rods and cables, as captured via a graph theory. The research team's main object of study, shown here, is structures that ...

Illustration of a set of real zeros of a graph polynomial (middle) and two Feynman diagrams. Credit: Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences How can the behavior of elementary particles ...

Algebraic structures provide the language and framework for formulating fundamental laws in modern physics, especially in areas where symmetry, quantisation and unification are paramount. Lie algebras ...

How can the behavior of elementary particles and the structure of the entire universe be described using the same mathematical concepts? This question is at the heart of recent work by the ...

Algebraic structures underpin much of contemporary mathematical physics and pure mathematics, providing the language for symmetries, operator algebras and representation theory. Orthogonal polynomial ...

Princeton professors Elliott Lieb and Mark Braverman were among those honored today for significant contributions to mathematics and affiliated fields by the International Mathematical Union (IMU) in ...

Learn basic quilting techniques. Contribute to the creation of a quilt that will be publicly displayed. Collaborate on designing quilt patterns based on mathematical structures or concepts. Just show ...

A new theory allows researchers to create easy-to-solve mathematical models using cables, a previously challenging mathematical problem.