Mathematics

There are seemingly two kinds of “operations” used in mathematics when it comes to working with functions; you can either take a function (...)

Perhaps you have already heard the term “deterministic chaos”. It sounds like an oxymoron, doesn’t it? One would expect chaotic (...)

Many a mathematician considers mathematics to be the only truly exact science and would like to believe that the answer to the question in (...)

Virtually all physicists praise the scientific method as the best possible approach to discovering the laws of nature because it is (...)

Imagine a life form consisting of jelly in water whose only sensation of the outer world is a continuous scale of pressure. It is not (...)

There are two major (and very different) “world views” among mathematicians. Adherents of Plato’s view believe that mathematical objects (...)

People often tend to learn inequalities just as formulas that are to be memorized, not to be thought about. There is, however, usually an (...)

Ideally, every number (in its abstractness) should have its own symbol. However, since there are infinitely many natural numbers and our (...)