Frank Merle is used to confronting a messy world. He works on the mathematics of highly nonlinear systems—ones that respond in dramatic, unpredictable ways to even the smallest changes. It’s the same ...

A photonic image/video/vision recognition system would be a huge step forward for autonomous moving systems. Your robot car could see and categorize a potentially dangerous object up ahead in ...

Middle School teacher Dan Powell sees math in Shakespeare. Or is Shakespeare in the math? Powell, a math teacher fond of quoting the Elizabethan playwright, often blurs the line between creative arts ...