These are not the kinds of objects that concern Scott Sheffield. Sheffield, a professor of mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, studies shapes that are constructed by random ...

A mysterious visitor from the stars is currently challenging everything we thought we knew about interstellar wanderers.

Researchers have uncovered deep connections among different types of random objects, illuminating hidden geometric structures. These are not the kinds of objects that concern Scott Sheffield.

In Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones must find a secret chamber that contains the legendary Ark of the Covenant. To identify its exact location, Indy must uncover a special map that’s only ...

This lecture course is devoted to the study of random geometrical objects and structures. Among the most prominent models are random polytopes, random tessellations, particle processes and random ...

How can the behavior of elementary particles and the structure of the entire universe be described using the same mathematical concepts? This question is at the heart of the recent work by ...

NASA scientists are facing questions after the Hubble Space Telescope spotted an unexpected feature on the interstellar ...