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 ...
Thinking about various sci-fi concepts for FTL travel and such, I decided to write a program on my calculator to calculate time dilation. For those of you who don't know what that means; the faster ...
The square root of a negative number could easily be regarded as a curious mathematical construction that has little bearing on real life. Indeed, the French polymath René Descartes gave such numbers ...