WILLIAMSTOWN -- William Wootters has a conundrum -- a mathematical conundrum. Wootters is a physics professor at Williams College, and on Thursday he's one of the presenters of the Williams Faculty ...
Years ago, no math education was complete without understanding how to compute a square root. Today, you are probably just ...
Microsoft Excel is a powerful tool for carrying out complex calculations. If you work on Excel, then you might come across performing mathematical operations almost every day. Sometimes, we face ...
A computer made from strands of DNA in a test tube can calculate the square root of numbers up to 900. Chunlei Guo at the University of Rochester in New York state and colleagues developed a computer ...
The ancient Greeks wanted to believe that the universe could be described in its entirety using only whole numbers and the ratios between them — fractions, or what we now call rational numbers. But ...