Sidney Perkowitz uncovers the pioneering work of the German physicist and philosopher Grete Hermann, who sparred with the ...

This brings to mind the curves of famous mathematician John von Neumann who noted: “With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk”. Trump managed to ...

Northwestern Engineering’s Jorge Nocedal has been awarded the 2024 John von Neumann Prize, the highest honor bestowed by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). Nocedal, Walter P.