The Calculus is made up of a few basic principles that anyone can understand. If looked at in the right way, it’s easy to apply these principles to the world around you and to see how the real world ...

In the late 19th century, Karl Weierstrass invented a fractal-like function that was decried as nothing less than a “deplorable evil.” In time, it would transform the foundations of mathematics.

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information The Archive for History of Exact Sciences casts light upon the conceptual groundwork of the sciences by analyzing the historical ...

There you are in your introductory physics course. The course requirements say that you have to be in Calculus 101 (it's probably not called that) in order to enroll in Physics 101. Why? There are two ...

Wolfram|Alpha: The makers of Mathematica (a very powerful mathematical software package, popular amongst applied mathematicians and engineers) bring us a "google-like" mathematical search engine. In ...

This study presents two main theses: (1) that distinguishing 'primitive' from 'derivative' forms and functions can be accomplished in a linguistic description by a base containing two types of rewrite ...