In one of David Lodge's comic novels about academia, the English-professor characters play a game called "Humiliation," where they take turns admitting classic works of literature that they haven't ...

The aim of mathematical physics is to adapt concept and methods of pure mathematics to study physical problems. A student interested in mathematical physics may choose to have as a major for her/his ...

In the Fall I'll be starting teaching again, after a semester away on sabbatical and then enjoying teaching relief during my first semester at Penn. I'll be teaching a course that I truly love, and ...

Tessellations aren’t just eye-catching patterns—they can be used to crack complex mathematical problems. By repeatedly ...

The course is devoted to analytical methods for partial differential equations of mathematical physics. Review of separation of variables. Laplace Equation: potential theory, eigenfunction expansions, ...

WASHINGTON, D.C., October 13, 2016 -- The American Institute of Physics (AIP) and the American Physical Society (APS) announced today, on behalf of the Heineman Foundation for Research, Educational, ...