Python has become one of the most popular programming languages out there, particularly for beginners and those new to the hacker/maker world. Unfortunately, while it’s easy to get something up and ...

In a recent write-up, [David Delony] explains how he built a Wolfram Mathematica-like engine with Python. Core to the system is SymPy for symbolic math support. [David] said being able to work with ...

What subjects are on the SAT? This is a common question for students gearing up for college. As I researched and gathered information for this guide, I saw that the national average SAT scores fell ...

Here we make explicit the connection between subscript notation in mathematics and indices in Python. In mathematics: Say we have a collection of objects X. We can refer to individual elements of the ...

Since the start of the 20th century, the heart of mathematics has been the proof — a rigorous, logical argument for whether a given statement is true or false. Mathematicians’ careers are measured by ...

When the greatest mathematician alive unveils a vision for the next century of research, the math world takes note. That’s exactly what happened in 1900 at the International Congress of Mathematicians ...

These libraries have only been tested on a factory TI-Nspire CX II CAS with the latest firmware. All other firmware and hardware has not been proven to work, but most likely will. An extended math ...

Modern-day graphics processing units (GPUs) and other AI chips are massive. The unfortunate tradeoff is that they also consume an enormous amount of power, and their power needs are rising ...

Abstract: Linear systems involved in engineering and scientific calculations can be more easily analyzed using similarity transformation. However, understanding the numerous abstract linear algebra ...

Prime numbers—numbers divisible only by 1 and themselves—have long fascinated mathematicians. This year a researcher discovered the largest known prime number, with a whopping 41,024,320 digits. It ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. David Bessis was drawn to mathematics for the same reason that many people are driven away: He didn’t understand how it worked. Unlike ...