Over the centuries, mathematicians have developed a variety of methods of solving equations. Using the capabilities of modern computers, they have explored in detail how these age-old recipes ...

Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 3 (1830 - 1837), pp. 472-473 (2 pages) ...

The Monthly publishes articles, as well as notes and other features, about mathematics and the profession. Its readers span a broad spectrum of mathematical interests, and include professional ...

PROF. C. RUNGE has informed me that the method I gave under the above title in NATURE of October 30, p. 627, has already been given by him in the “Encyclopädie der mathematischen Wissenschaften,” vol.

All quadratic functions have the same type of curved graphs with a line of symmetry. The graph of the quadratic function \(y = ax^2 + bx + c\) is a smooth curve with one turning point. The turning ...

History is full of backstabbing rivalries: Edison and Tesla, Harding and Kerrigan, Tupac and Biggie. No less dramatic was a 16th-century conflict between Italian mathematicians Gerolamo Cardano, a ...