NEW YORK — It's not every day that a gala event is devoted to the celebration of math, but that's exactly what happened Tuesday night (Oct. 14), when actor Alan Alda and mathematician Steve Strogatz ...

Elena Holodny: What's interesting in chaos theory right now? Steven Strogatz: I’m often very interested in whatever my students get interested in. I primarily think of myself as a teacher and a guide.

It's that point when a smooth river turns into a tumultuous swirl of white water, the tornado that unpredictably changes course on a dime or the wild interactions of three planets under one another's ...

This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. Two physicists are sitting in a car. One says to the other, ...

I once had someone tell me a story of being on an airplane seated next to someone who was writing a dissertation in either math or economics (I forgot which). They asked their companion what their ...

Unemployment time series in Spain behave in a chaotic way according to a study at the University of Seville. Such chaos demonstrates the complex and unpredictable nature of the Spanish labour market ...

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., Sept. 9, 2005- "Coincidences, Chaos, and All That Math Jazz: Making Light of Weighty Ideas" by mathematicians Edward B. Burger and Michael Starbird is "irreverent, entertaining, ...

It's that point when a smooth river turns into a tumultuous swirl of white water, the tornado that unpredictably changes course on a dime or the wild interactions of three planets under one another's ...