Ari Marchesso spent this academic year at Pasadena City College getting a refresher on precalculus skills. The 2nd-year student took trigonometry in 2020 at Blair High School and felt “too foggy” ...

Unlike traditional computing, quantum computing relies on the rules of quantum physics, the science of how tiny particles like electrons and photons behave. Instead of using bits that represent either ...

The idea that reality—the universe, our world, and everything we perceive—is a simulation has fascinated philosophers and scientists for millennia, but new findings suggest that the theory, despite ...

Screen time has long been blamed for making children inactive. Long before the smartphone era, television through cartoons, movies, and music was a primary source of entertainment for children. Even ...

The STEM Scholars lectures are designed for the general public. These lectures bring together area K-12 and community college students, faculty, and administrators; local business and industry leaders ...

Last year, onlookers observed a startling site on China’s Qiantang River: waves forming a grid-like pattern. Dubbed the “matrix tide,” this complex wave pattern was caused by the river’s famed tidal ...

THE history of the mathematical term “matrix” is likely to be very interesting. Its original meaning was an array of symbols (a mn) forming a rectangle of m rows and columns, out of which determinants ...

The William Reinhardt Memorial Lecture in the Philosophy of Mathematics was founded to commemorate the life of William Reinhardt, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Colorado from 1967 until ...

Can you chip in? This year we’ve reached an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved on the Wayback Machine. This makes us the largest public repository of internet history ever ...