“Hidden Figures” is a wonderful movie about the African-American women who worked as mathematicians for the US space program in the 1950’s and 1960’s. You can see it for free on campus on Friday February 23rd at 6PM in the auditorium of the School of Sciences and Mathematics Building. Show up early at 4:30 for […]
Deadline for applications for the 2018-2019 Horatio Hughes Memorial Scholarship in Mathematics has been extended to April 6, 2018. See details at http://math.cofc.edu/student-ops/scholarships.php
The College of Charleston Math Club and the Department of Mathematics are hosting several events in the next few months: Mathematics Department Colloquium Most Fridays Tea at 2:45 in RSS 346 (math department lounge) Presentation from 3:00 to 4:00, usually RSS 251 but watch for signs An hour with a guest speaker about all kinds […]
Some mathematics research can take a long time — decades if not centuries — to be used in an application. One of the amazing thing about Svitlana Maybroroda’s recent work on the mathematics of waves is that it is already being applied to improving the efficiency of LED lighting. Read about her work and its […]
The departmental newsletter for 2017 has been revised and improved. Check out the latest version:
Plimpton 322 is an ancient Babylonian tablet that has been only now deciphered after a great deal of effort. It turns out, it is a remarkably accurate trigonometric table! This breaks the record for both the oldest and the most accurate ancient table of its kind. Some of the difficulty in deciphering the old mathematical […]
Another famous mathematician has died, but in many ways this is a less tragic story than the last death we announced on this blog. Cathleen Morawetz, who was a president of the American Mathematical Society and professor at NYU, died this past weekend at the age of 94. Her contributions to the mathematical study of […]
Maryam Mirzakhani, the Stanford mathematician who was the first woman to win a Fields Medal when it was awarded to her just three years ago at ICM 2014, has died of cancer. This is a tragedy for the world of mathematics as well as for her family and friends. For more information, see this news […]
In an article in the latest College of Charleston magazine, Professor Garrett Mitchener tells us about his fascinating area of research that combines mathematics and linguistics!
Check out the Math Department’s 2017 newsletter!