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 ...

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

The square root of a negative number could easily be regarded as a curious mathematical construction that has little bearing on real life. Indeed, the French polymath René Descartes gave such numbers ...

Let us look at some interesting facts about squares and square roots. A square and its square root are the reverse of each other. But what happens to squares and square roots of negative numbers? When ...

The Boltzmann constant occurs in nearly every statistical formulation in classical and quantum physics. Boltzman constant explains why ice cubes melt in warm water, but are not spontaneously created ...