Homotopy theory is a cornerstone of modern algebraic topology, concerned with the study of spaces up to continuous deformations. This approach characterises topological spaces by their intrinsic ...

Emily Riehl sees similarities between the viola, which she grew up playing, and the mathematical field of higher category theory, in which she is currently a leading participant. She thinks of the two ...

July 3, 2005 — -- There's an oft-repeated story that when Stephen Hawking was writing "A Brief History of Time," he was told that every equation in the book would cut his readership in half. If ...

Dan Schreiber’s “The Theory of Everything Else” is a return to the golden age of the trivia compendium. By Dan Piepenbring When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an ...