A Fascination with Bicycles
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MIE Assistant Teaching Professor Jim Papadopoulos was featured in Nature for his lifetime obsession with the mechanics of the way a bicycle works. The article "The bicycle problem that nearly broke mathematics" explains his research into how a riderless bike can stay upright.