Perhaps the most beautiful aspect of mathematics is that it applies to literally everything, even things that do not exist in ...

*Makes one wonder what it would sound like to simply speak vector space mathematics aloud, rather than bothering with human language. "Computer science is changing the nature of the translation of ...

In this paper it is shown that every idempotent, self-adjoint linear endomorphism in a finite-dimensional normed Boolean vector space has its norm as an eigenvalue. A completely algebraic proof is ...

Back in 1970, the social activist Irina Dunn scribbled a slogan on the back of a toilet cubicle door at the University of Sydney. It said: “A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.” The phrase ...

Computer science is changing the nature of the translation of words and sentences from one language to another. Anybody who has tried BabelFish or Google Translate will know that they provide useful ...

In 50 years of searching, mathematicians found only one example of a “subspace design” that fit their criteria. A new proof reveals that there are infinitely more out there. In the fall of 2017, ...