Learning the foundations…
Contrary to widely-held opinion, taking high school calculus isn’t necessary for success later in college calculus – what’s more important …
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Measuring the cosmos… Ghosts and numbers…
A groundbreaking experiment in physics has for the first time provided a precise measurement of a force between electrons and …
Counting till the end… Numbers… Infinite… Water and fire…
Gisin, of the University of Geneva, debates the physical reality of real numbers. His main problem lies with real numbers …
Calculating probabilities.
Our whole life we must make decisions and weigh up probabilities of different events. By learning to estimate which event …
Changing color. Turing. Von Neumann. Automata. Thinking. Tautologies.
Skin colour patterns in animals arise from microscopic interactions among coloured cells that obey equations discovered by the mathematician Alan …