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Imagine winding the hour hand of a clock back from 3 o’clock to noon. Mathematicians have long known how to describe this rotation as a simple multiplication: A number representing the initial ...
IT may perhaps be rather an exaggerated statement, but it is none the less to a great extent true, that mathematicians tend to divide themselves into two classes, quaternionists and non quaternionists ...
Have you, dear reader, ever needed to plot the position of a swimming pool noodle in 3D and in real time? Of course you have, and today, you’re in luck! I’ve compiled together a solution that’s sure ...
In May 1954, Cornelius Lanczos took up a position as senior professor in the School of Theoretical Physics at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (Dias). The institute had been established in ...
The Mathematical Gazette is the original journal of the Mathematical Association and it is now over a century old. Its readership is a mixture of school teachers, college and university lecturers, ...
This monthly journal, begun in 1950, is devoted entirely to research in pure and applied mathematics, principally to the publication of original papers of moderate length. A section called Shorter ...