Math

Aryabhatta was a mathematician and astronomer who lives from 476 to 550 AD in India. He has many celebrated achievements to his credit.

Dec 14, 2009 - Bhavya Dabas

The terms of a sequence may get very close to each other, but it may not actually converge. Sets in which such sequences always converge are called Cauchy complete sets.

Dec 10, 2009 - Bhavya Dabas

The cardinality of a set is an idea stemming from the idea of functions. The concept of a number comes from here.

Dec 9, 2009 - Bhavya Dabas

Are there any "dummies" interested in differential equations? Touted as a "Reference for the Rest of Us," this book really isn't for anyone.

Dec 9, 2009 - Philip McIntosh

Just as numbers form groups under operations like addition and multiplication, they form special kinds of groups under modular addition and multiplication.

Dec 4, 2009 - Bhavya Dabas

Elon Lindenstrauss and Cédric Villani have been jointly awarded the Fermat Prize for 2009. The prize recognizes research in areas which were of interest to Fermat.

Dec 4, 2009 - Bhavya Dabas

A permutation is a rearrangement of a set of objects. All permutations on a given set form a group under composition.

Dec 3, 2009 - Bhavya Dabas

The set of all moves on Rubik's cube forms a group, under composition of moves.

Dec 3, 2009 - Bhavya Dabas

Groups are an interesting area of study in algebra, and find applications in other areas of mathematics, computer science, and other fields.

Dec 2, 2009 - Bhavya Dabas

The concepts of relations, functions and operations are a starting point in the understanding of various concepts in algebra, analysis and other areas of mathematics.

Dec 2, 2009 - Bhavya Dabas

A metric space is a set, together with a distance function defined on it, satisfying certain properties.

Nov 24, 2009 - Bhavya Dabas

Transcendental numbers are numbers, possibly complex, that cannot be expressed as the roots of polynomial equations with integer coefficients.

Nov 24, 2009 - Bhavya Dabas

Number systems have been developed and extended over a long period of time, with the gaps in each system paving the path to a new one.

Nov 20, 2009 - Bhavya Dabas

A series, in mathematics, is the sum of the terms of an underlying sequence.

Nov 20, 2009 - Bhavya Dabas

Pierre de Fermat's "Little Theorem" lies at the base of the RSA cryptographic algorithm.

Nov 19, 2009 - Bhavya Dabas

A set is said to be countable if all its elements can be listed in the form of a sequence.

Nov 16, 2009 - Bhavya Dabas

Born in a poor family in a south Indian village, Ramanujan greatly influenced the world of mathematics, in spite of his lack of formal education.

Nov 16, 2009 - Bhavya Dabas

A sequence is a function from the set of natural numbers to any given set.

Nov 13, 2009 - Bhavya Dabas

Michael Green, theoretical physicist, succeeds the likes of Sir Isaac Newton, Charles Babbage and Paul Dirac to become the next Lucasian Professor at Cambridge.

Nov 13, 2009 - Bhavya Dabas

Until not too long ago, women were discouraged from studying science and mathematics. Even so, there were a select few who held their own and made their mark.

Nov 12, 2009 - Bhavya Dabas

The Beal Conjecture is an interesting number theoretic problem that came about as a by-product of Andrew Beal's work on Fermat's Last Theorem.

Nov 12, 2009 - Bhavya Dabas

Mathematical statements are either true or false. When they are neither, they remind mathematicians to formulate their theories more accurately.

Nov 9, 2009 - Bhavya Dabas

Pythagoras' Theorem is a profound result that has allowed mathematicians to cut corners for centuries, and is surely among the greatest in all mathematics.

Aug 28, 2009 - Harry P. Schlanger

Both a mathematical constant and an irrational value, the quest to find pi has absorbed mathematicians' minds for millennia.

Jul 17, 2009 - Steven Slater

Computers store data using binary numbers. Binary numbers take up space to write down, so the octal and hexadecimal number systems are used to abbreviate them.

Jul 15, 2009 - Martin Bell