This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American On this episode of My Favorite Theorem, Kevin ...

Calculus is the study of change. More specifically, it is a method for understanding rates of change. If you know an object’s velocity and want to calculate its acceleration, then you need calculus ...

Determining which configurations of the cube are possible. The Fundamental Theorem of Cubology is a statement that characterizes which configurations are possible, and which configurations are ...

Learn about the fundamental theorem of calculus. The fundamental theorem of calculus is a theorem that connects the concept ...

LI 1 has pointed out, by means of a neat algebraic formulation, that Fisher's fundamental theorem of natural selection does not apply exactly in a discrete-generation random-mating situation unless ...

To all the new readers: Ready for some math? We love math here at Casting Out Nines, and I’ll be taking at least one day a week to talk about a math topic specifically. If you have a math post you’d ...

Absolute zero − the most appropriate temperature for both quantum experiments and quantum computing − makes it easier to describe a system by relying on a set of fundamental propositions. One of them, ...

Genome-wide association studies have been very successful at identifying loci involved in rare Mendelian traits in population isolates, and as such have been suggested in recent years to be ...

Calculus is the study of change. More specifically, it is a method for understanding rates of change. If you know an object’s velocity and want to calculate its acceleration, then you need calculus ...