This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Ah, the Mandelbrot set. This famous fractal ...

At the beginning of my third year at university studying mathematics, I spotted an announcement. A visiting professor from Canada would be giving a mini-course of ten lectures on a subject called ...

If you're an ecologist, you're interested in populations, and one of the best ways to understand something is to model it mathematically. So let's say you want to represent population growth or ...