From fireworks to woodburning to modeling fire behavior, Jenna Sjunneson McDanold’s love of fire has fueled her growth as an artist and a mathematician. As part of her studies as mathematical modeling ...

Pi is, quite possibly, the most famous number known to man.* This fact is a little bit ironic, as we don’t actually have a number for pi. Well, not a complete number anyways, because pi never ends. If ...

Philosophy of Science, Vol. 78, No. 5 (December 2011), pp. 774-787 (14 pages) In practice, scientists must convey data in a “representational style” (e.g., as a numerical array or visual ...

Mathematical patterns reveal profound truths about the universe and, surprisingly, about our inner lives as well. These five visual math concepts offer unique frameworks for understanding our behavior ...

"This publication is a compilation of extended versions of the papers which were presented at a one-day national conference, titled Imaging Ourselves: Visual Identities in Representation, held at the ...

Brain circuits are known to gradually form and develop after birth as the result of both innate biological processes and life ...