Allen Razdow, who wrote Mathcad in 1985, has just released his latest tool for engineers and other numerically-inclined professionals: True Numbers, an online service and specification that lets users ...

In the early 1970s mathematician Donald Knuth spent a sabbatical with his wife in Norway. The time was meant to be spent relaxing. Yet one night he woke up his partner in a state of agitation. He ...

Excerpted from "The Grapes of Math: How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life." Numbers were invented to describe precise amounts: three teeth, seven days, twelve goats. When quantities are ...

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