Many different base number systems are used to represent numeric values. Each number system has its own importance and usage. Decimal number system, base 10 This is the most fundamental number system we all use in mathematics. Everybody knows there…
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The Wolf Prize in Mathematics was probably one of the closest and first equivalents to the “Nobel Prize” for Mathematics. This is one of the six Wolf Prizes that are awarded since its establishment in 1978. The other awards include:…
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The Abel Prize is a recent type of annual international prize in regards to mathematics. In a sense, the Abel Prize is the Norwegian equivalent to the Nobel Prize. Unlike the Nobel Prize, the Abel Prize is focused on the…
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The most common base of course decimal, also known as base-ten. This includes numbers zero through nine represented with one digit, 0 through 99 with two, and so on and so forth. The word Decimal comes from the root deca…
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Number systems can theoretically have as many distinct symbols as there are numbers themselves. The fact that the base-10 system we use has become so prevalent throughout the world today may be because it is intuitive for us to use…
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Points and lines are the building blocks of Euclidean plane geometry. The concept of line forms the base, for the study of angles, polygons and higher geometry. Two lines are said to be parallel 1. Only if the lines are…
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From the very first second each of us opens our eyes in the morning, we are using math. It’s essential for survival, for living, for learning, for progressing, for communicating. Our minds never stop calculating, brilliantly I might add (oops,…
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Statistics lie, this we know for a fact. When both sides of any argument can quote competing statistics in order to prove their point, it becomes obvious that these prized facts and figures are nowhere near as reliable as we…
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“Cantor’s Infinity Proof Made Easy” Cantor’s proof is an elegant and apparently mathematically valid demonstration that arrives at a surprising conclusion. Like Bells’sTheorem, which asserts the necessity for non-locality of physical events, at least at the quantum level, the conclusion…
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In 2006, Dr James Anderson, a computer science professor at the University of Reading (UK) boldly announced that he had solved a very important problem. It was a problem that has perplexed academics and anyone of a vaguely scientific or…
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