Elena Holodny: What's interesting in chaos theory right now? Steven Strogatz: I’m often very interested in whatever my students get interested in. I primarily think of myself as a teacher and a guide.

NEW YORK — It's not every day that a gala event is devoted to the celebration of math, but that's exactly what happened Tuesday night (Oct. 14), when actor Alan Alda and mathematician Steve Strogatz ...

It's that point when a smooth river turns into a tumultuous swirl of white water, the tornado that unpredictably changes course on a dime or the wild interactions of three planets under one another's ...

I once had someone tell me a story of being on an airplane seated next to someone who was writing a dissertation in either math or economics (I forgot which). They asked their companion what their ...

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., Sept. 9, 2005- "Coincidences, Chaos, and All That Math Jazz: Making Light of Weighty Ideas" by mathematicians Edward B. Burger and Michael Starbird is "irreverent, entertaining, ...

This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. Two physicists are sitting in a car. One says to the other, ...

History of mathematics tells us that its role as an aid to describing natural phenomena really took off with Isaac Newton. Amongst his many contributions to maths and science was the new branch of ...

The Mathematics of Chaos — a documentary that was aired on BBC Four not too long ago is an informative, enlightening but disturbing viewing experience. In brief, it contrasts the modern understanding ...

It is not often that a serious mathematics journal contains a crochet pattern, but the current issue of the Mathematical Intelligencer has instructions on how to crochet your very own model of chaos.

It's that point when a smooth river turns into a tumultuous swirl of white water, the tornado that unpredictably changes course on a dime or the wild interactions of three planets under one another's ...