By Kim Larkin As an artsy kid and a dreamer, I didn’t see the connection at the time, but even when I wasn’t looking for it, math was there in my life. It didn’t appear as equations, but rather as the unseen foundation underlying my fascination with finding patterns, asking why, imagining possibilities, and playing...

By David Bressoud @dbressoud As of 2024, new Launchings columns appear on the third Tuesday of the month. In the September Launchings, I explained a remarkable result due to Cauchy that if C is a simply closed curve and f is any complex function that is analytic in a simply connected open region that includes C,...