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 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 ...

Maths has always been Shloka Suraj’s favourite subject. But, in school, she says, it is often taught in a boring way. “They start saying that it is complex, and they make it complex,” says the ...

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