WILLIAMSTOWN -- William Wootters has a conundrum -- a mathematical conundrum. Wootters is a physics professor at Williams College, and on Thursday he's one of the presenters of the Williams Faculty ...

Thinking about various sci-fi concepts for FTL travel and such, I decided to write a program on my calculator to calculate time dilation. For those of you who don't know what that means; the faster ...

Microsoft Excel is a powerful tool for carrying out complex calculations. If you work on Excel, then you might come across performing mathematical operations almost every day. Sometimes, we face ...

It is possible to find the cube and cube root of a number using simple formulas in Excel. You can use the same formula in Excel, Excel Online, and Google Sheets to calculate the cube root or cube of ...

From Quanta Magazine (find original story here). In 1847, Gabriel Lamé proved Fermat’s Last Theorem. Or so he thought. Lamé was a French mathematician who had made many important discoveries. In March ...

To a nonmathematician, having the letter “i” represent a number that does not quite exist and is “imaginary” can be hard to ...