In the late 19th century, Karl Weierstrass invented a fractal-like function that was decried as nothing less than a “deplorable evil.” In time, it would transform the foundations of mathematics.

There you are in your introductory physics course. The course requirements say that you have to be in Calculus 101 (it's probably not called that) in order to enroll in Physics 101. Why? There are two ...

We like mechanical calculators like slide rules, but we have to admit that we had not heard of the Ott Derivimeter that [Chris Staecker] shows us in a recent video. As the name implies, the ...

https://doi.org/10.4169/amer.math.monthly.120.06.566 https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.4169/amer.math.monthly.120.06.566 Abstract We construct an example of a monotonic ...

Wolfram|Alpha: The makers of Mathematica (a very powerful mathematical software package, popular amongst applied mathematicians and engineers) bring us a "google-like" mathematical search engine. In ...

Graphs of Sine and Cosine 1.2 An applet illustrating how the graphs of sine and cosine are related to the unit circle. Transformations of Functions 1.3 An applet illustrating how transformations ...