In "Mapmatics," a mathematician tells the stories of how math helps us track epidemics, map the seafloor, and plot a complex delivery route.
Abstract: Schwarz-Christoffel mapping is an elegant theory that can preserve the structure of a pattern perfectly. One of the most important elements of conformal mapping theory, Schwarz-Christoffel ...
Abstract: A fractal tiling (f-tiling) is a tiling whose boundary is fractal. This article presents two families of rare, infinitely many f-tilings. Each f-tiling is constructed by reducing tiles by a ...
Many presidents and vice presidents fall out by the end of their tenures, a fraught dynamic that goes back to the early days of the republic. Former Vice President Kamala Harris’s new book recounts ...