I write about mathematics and its applications. Oct 15, 2017, 09:45am EDT Oct 15, 2017, 09:45am EDT. Share. ... What you'd really want, though, is a measuring cup with the following property: ...

One of the curious properties of mathematics is its beauty. But exactly what mathematicians mean by beauty is hard to capture. Perhaps the most famous example is Euler’s relation, eiπ + 1 = 0 ...

Let alone describing several properties of a single entity with certainty. The fundamental deficiencies of analytical solutions when attempting to describe our observations puts mathematics in its ...