When she was young, Mary Everest Boole found some cards with evenly spaced holes around the edges. She laced a thread from each hole to the one opposite, covering the card with lines that crossed in ...
Abstract: Characteristic curves of vector fields include stream, path, and streak lines. Stream and path lines can be obtained by a simple vector field integration of an autonomous ODE system, i.e., ...
If you have a rectangle-shaped body, you know the struggle — finding clothes that add definition in all the right places without feeling like you’re trying too hard. Maybe you’ve tried belted dresses ...
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.
ALTOONA, Pa. (WTAJ) — The Altoona Curve has partnered with a local brewery to bring two team-branded beers to the stadium this season. If you see a beer can with “Al-Tuna” on it, fear not, you are not ...
Before reading this guide, you may find it helpful to read the guide on graphs from Module 7 (M7) and the guide on indices from Module 8 (M8). In Module 7 (M7) Graphs, you learned that simultaneous ...
This is somewhat an extension of this post in which I don't believe this has been really been explicitly answered to those who want to know the usage of the f0 curve. I myself am interested in knowing ...