Calculus of variations establishes a framework to determine the extrema of functionals—mappings from functions to real numbers—which has been pivotal in elucidating natural principles such as the ...

AMONG the many ways in which the American Mathematical Society has endeavoured to popularise and develop the study of higher mathematics, not the least remarkable and useful is the practice of holding ...

CHICAGO—January 25, 2024—Illinois Institute of Technology (Illinois Tech) Professor Chun Liu has been elected a 2024 fellow of the American Mathematical Society (AMS)—one of just 40 mathematical ...