Van Vleck’s largest lecture hall was filled to the brim for popular YouTuber Grant Sanderon’s talk on high-dimensional spheres.

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This tan paper cut and glued model has thirty-six equal isosceles triangles for sides. Eighteen of these are around the middle, facing in opposite directions as in an antiprism. Nine at each end form ...

In contrast to the complexity and challenges of producing OAM beams and vector vortex beams from lasers, the control of polarization or SAM inside laser cavities is a well-established technique 45.

Maryam Mirzakhani, who became the first woman Fields medalist for drawing deep connections between topology, geometry and dynamical systems, has died of cancer at the age of 40. This is our 2014 ...