Crunching the college football numbers

College football suffers from what mathematicians call a transitivity problem. Just because Team A beats Team B and Team B beats Team C doesn't mean Team A will beat Team C. So human voters need...

Crunching the college football numbers

College football suffers from what mathematicians call a transitivity problem. Just because Team A beats Team B and Team B beats Team C doesn't mean Team A will beat Team C. So human voters need...

Rall speaks at Bordeaux Workshop

SPRING,  2012 Doug Rall was one of eight invited speakers at the week-long Bordeaux Workshop on Identifying Codes in Graphs held in November at the Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche Informatique in Bordeaux, France. Rall is...

Strange bedfellows? math and baseball

APRIL 9, 2012 by Vince Moore, Media Relations Is it possible to rank Major League Baseball teams and predict their day-to-day play by looking through the prism of a few mathematical concepts? Maybe so. At least...

Math professors Harris, Hutson crunch the college football numbers

Are the BCS computer ratings the best way to rank college football teams? Peter Keating, a writer with ESPN the Magazine, doesn’t think so, and he enlisted the help of Furman math professors John Harris and...

Counting on music

Every summer, Furman Fellowships are awarded to five members of the upcoming senior class who are recognized for their remarkable leadership skills, scholarship, and community service. Winners receive a monetary stipend toward their final year...

Two Furman seniors were honored this summer for their work in mathematics, but the road there wasn’t just about equations. They applied math to a biology problem and employed computer modeling to test their theories...

Furman to honor Sarah Reese and Lillian Brock Flemming 

Furman University will honor Sarah Reese ’71 H’14 and Lillian Brock Flemming ’71 M’75 H’14 with permanent displays on campus to recognize their lifelong achievements and to invite all who come to Furman to be...