This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The work described in this article was based on a historical perspective in order to analyze the extension of the natural-number domain to the ...

There's a part of the brain that enables us to perceive magnitude -- we can compare loudness when hearing different tones or compare the number of dots in a group at a glance. Neuroscientists have ...

A mathematical proof is a sequence of statements that follow on logically from each other that shows that something is always true. Using letters to stand for numbers means that we can make statements ...

Taxi-cab numbers, among the most beloved integers in math, trace their origins to 1918 and what seemed like a casual insight by the Indian genius Srinivasa Ramanujan. Now mathematicians have ...

For example, if \(a \textgreater 3\), then any number that is bigger than 3 is a possible answer, from any decimal slightly bigger than 3 to infinity. List the integer solutions to \(-5 \textless k ...