The Monthly publishes articles, as well as notes and other features, about mathematics and the profession. Its readers span a broad spectrum of mathematical interests, and include professional ...

In a recent study, mathematicians from Freie Universität Berlin have demonstrated that planar tiling, or tessellation, is much more than a way to create a pretty pattern. Consisting of a surface ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Determining the composition of a chemical system at equilibrium is an important problem that arises in many fields of science and engineering.

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