Alexander Bobenko has spent the past 20 years chewing on mathematical doughnuts. In the 2000s, he tried to prove that compact ...

Tessellations aren’t just eye-catching patterns—they can be used to crack complex mathematical problems. By repeatedly ...

Inspired by biological systems, materials scientists have long sought to harness self-assembly to build nanomaterials. The ...

For centuries, the principle of symmetry has guided physicists towards more fundamental truths, but now a slew of shocking ...

Michael Boyle is an experienced financial professional with more than 10 years working with financial planning, derivatives, equities, fixed income, project management, and analytics. Compounding is ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

It took a series of aviation disasters for safety experts to realize the critical role of working memory when pilots and technicians juggle competing tasks. In some cases, technicians made apparently ...

You can extend various functionalities of the MATLAB® desktop using Extension Points. For example, you can add custom items to the Quick Access Toolbar or change the icon or label for a file type in ...

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the American cartoonist Crockett Johnson created a series of paintings on mathematical subjects. They’re based on theorems, laws, and mathematical figures, but ...

Photonic Finite-Difference Frequency-Domain (FDFD) Toolbox is a MATLAB Community Toolbox project, aiming to provide intuitive framework for photonic devices simulation using MATLAB. Note: The toolbox ...