The vernal equinox is fast approaching and you may have noticed that the days are getting longer. Well, they've been getting longer since late December, but the rate at which it's happening seems to ...
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Calculus is a powerful mathematical tool. But for hundreds of years after its invention in the 17th century, it stood on a shaky ...
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.
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