For millennia, humanity has observed the changing phases of the Moon. The rise and fall of sunlight reflected off the Moon, as it presents its different faces to us, is known as a “phase curve”.

THE teaching of astronomy is attended by many difficulties, and competes against other studies under disadvantages which cannot be denied. When facilities exist for practical work the weather may be ...

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Before enrolling at the University of Chicago in 2009, Olga Turanova and Jessica Lin had heard that graduate students in mathematics enjoy a special feeling of community here. "It certainly is true," ...

János Kollár, the Donner Professor of Science and professor of mathematics at Princeton University, is a co-recipient of the 2017 Shaw Prize in mathematical sciences. Awarded by the Hong Kong-based ...

The 2022 Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences was awarded in equal shares to mathematicians Noga Alon of Princeton University and Ehud Hrushovski of Oxford, "for their remarkable contributions to ...

THIS book belongs to the peculiar class intermediate between the popular work on astronomy on one hand and the serious technical treatise on the other. The scope of the class is otherwise not easily ...

The Bernese theoretical astrophysicist Kevin Heng has achieved a rare feat: On paper, he has derived novel solutions to an old mathematical problem needed to calculate light reflections from planets ...