Prime Numbers
The Twin Prime Conjecture
Are there infinitely many primes p such that p + 2 is prime?
Mathematics
Complex Analysis
A Gentle Introduction to Analytic Continuation
How to Extend the Domain of Analytic Functions
Grothendieck
The Anarchist Abstractionist — Who was Alexander Grothendieck?
Mathematician Alexander Grothendieck was born in 1928 to anarchist parents who left him to spend the majority of his formative years with foster parents.
Mathematics
The Mathematics of Ted Kaczynski
Before terrorist Theodore John Kaczynski (1942-) began sending mail-bombs to faculty members at various American universities, he had a promising career in mathematics.
Wiener
The Absent-Minded Father of Cybernetics, Norbert Wiener
American mathematician Norbert Wiener (1894–1964) was by all accounts, a very peculiar man. After graduating from high school at 11 years old, he entered Tufts College and within three years was awarded an A.B. in mathematics.
Analysis
Taylor Series And The Power Of Approximation
We take a deeper look at what Taylor Series does and how we can obtain polynomials for approximating non-polynomial functions.
Mathematics
Alan Turing in America
Pioneering British computer scientist and mathematician Alan Turing first arrived in America on the 28th of September 1936.
Topology
The Hodge Conjecture
Get $1 million if you solve this math problem.
Analysis
Root-Finding Algorithms
Ways of determining when an equation is equal to zero
Fourier
The Fourier Series
A Basic Overview & Visual Introduction To The Magic Of Waves
History
The Great Purge of 1933
How Nazism Destroyed Science in Germany
Mathematics
The Arithmetic-Geometric Mean Inequality
Suppose that x and y are non-negative real numbers, not necessarily distinct. The famous arithmetic-geometric mean inequality says that: