In the parable of the blind men and the elephant, several blind men each describe a different part of an elephant they are touching—a sharp tusk, a flexible trunk, or a broad leg—and disagree about ...

Proteins are the foundation of all life we currently know. With their virtually limitless diversity, they can perform a broad variety of biological functions, from delivering oxygen to cells and ...

Spline methods constitute a cornerstone of modern geometric design, providing versatile and efficient tools to represent curves and surfaces in a piecewise-polynomial fashion. Originating from ...

A scientist from the University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates has arrived at a new method that may help craftsmen to simulate and produce immeasurable numbers of stunning patterns of ...

Headed by Professor John Moriarty and Dr Amaranta Membrillo Solis of Queen Mary’s School of Mathematical Sciences, along with collaborators from the University of Nottingham, UCL and École Normale ...

In the context of inverse problems, a mathematical model of the measurements is called the direct problem. To understand this term, let us consider a model for obstetric sonography. An ultrasonic ...