Dirac's Plate Trick, the Hairy Ball Theorem and more: Research probes physics of irregular objects on inclined planes
How gravity causes a perfectly spherical ball to roll down an inclined plane is part of the elementary school physics canon.
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Getting Ball Rolling
How gravity causes a perfectly spherical ball to roll down an inclined plane is part of elementary school physics canon. But the world is messier than ...
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RPI’s Mohammed J. Zaki Named 2025 SIAM Fellow for Pioneering Contributions to Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
Mohammed J. Zaki, Ph.D., Professor and Department Head of Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), has been named a 2025 Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics ...
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The Mathematical Mind: A Spotlight on Dr. Abdalla Mansur
Dr. Abdalla Mansur has spent his life exploring the patterns that shape the universe. From the motion of planets to the way ...
Testing hypotheses: Polk students compete in annual State Science and Engineering Fair
More than 900 students from throughout Florida took part in the 70th Annual State Science and Engineering Fair of Florida, ...
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Quantum computers are on track to solve knotty mathematical problems
A quantum algorithm for solving mathematical problems related to knots could give us the first example of a quantum computer ...