mathematics
WWII codebreaker and mathematician Tutte honored with stamp
Royal Mail celebrates combinatorics pioneer and WWII hero Dr. William T. Tutte with stamp commemorating 80 anniversary of V-E Day Waterloo professor and WWII codebreaker Dr. William T. Tutte (1917-2002) is one of ten individuals being honored by Great Britain's Royal Mail in a stamp series commemorating the 80 anniversary of Victory in Europe (VE) Day.
New dean appointed for Waterloo’s Faculty of Mathematics
Dr. Jochen Koenemann, an expert in combinatorial optimization, to serve as 13th dean Dr. Jochen Koenemann will become the 13th dean of the University of Waterloo's Faculty of Mathematics.
Western math professor Ján Minác to receive 2025 Jeffery-Williams Prize
For Western professor Ján Minác, "there is no greater joy than understanding something that looked mysterious before.
A world of education
"I used to think Waterloo was boring, but maybe I was just boring," laughs Kaitlyn Bowles, a mathematics and business administration student.
Remembering Siv Sivaloganathan
Sivabal Sivaloganathan, chair of Waterloo's Department of Applied Mathematics from 2016 to 2023, and professor of Applied Mathematics from 1990 to present, passed away on March 2, 2025, after a brief illness.
Math to decipher how machine learning works
Western researchers have developed a novel technique using math to understand exactly how neural networks make decisions - a widely recognized but poorly understood process in the field of machine learning.
How much faster is a knight than a king? A mathematical study reveals the exact ratio!
A chessboard knight can't reach a given square twice as fast as the king. Christian Táfula Santos has proved it, using the famous Fibonacci sequence.
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