Researchers at the University of Tsukuba have created a new method for deriving approximate linear equations to complicated nonlinear problems. Using simulation results, they show that the model ...

Much scientific research across a range of disciplines tries to find linear approximations of nonlinear behaviors. But what does that mean? Spend some time browsing around the web site of MIT’s ...

Frank Merle is used to confronting a messy world. He works on the mathematics of highly nonlinear systems—ones that respond in dramatic, unpredictable ways to even the smallest changes. It’s the same ...