Mathematician overcame the gravitational pulls of gender and racial discrimination to play a key part in space race.

Mammalian brain is one of the most complex objects in the known universe, as it governs every aspect of animal’s and human behavior. It is fair to say that we have a very limited knowledge of how the brain operates and functions. Computational Neuroscience is a scientific discipline that attempts to understand and describe the brain in terms of mathematical modeling. This user-friendly review t...

My goal with the use of visuals in mathematics I am a research geometer, working on applied problems such as: What shapes of built frameworks will stand up or fall over? How can we program geometric constraints for CAD or CAGD? How can we reconstruct 3-D objects from a single picture or several partial views? What parts of proteins are flexible? and What patterns occur in computational origami....

It is becoming increasingly difficult for geometers and even physicists to avoid papers containing phrases like “triangulated category”, not to mention derived functors. I will give some motivation for such things from algebraic geometry, and show how the concepts are already familiar from topology. This gives a natural and simple way to look at cohomology and other scary concepts in homologica...