Discusses the importance of number systems, tracing their origins from early human counting methods using fingers to modern numeral systems. It explains the decimal system, place value, and how ...

The ability to make the connection between an event and its consequences -- experts use the term associative learning -- is a crucial skill for adapting to the environment. It has a huge impact on our ...

Mathematics prepare us to become thinking firefighters. Being a math guy, I find it difficult to understand how anyone can say, “I’m not a math person” or “I’ll never use this stuff.” I understand ...

Our brains are filled with lots of specialized structures that do things like process visual information, handle memories, or interpret language. One of the ways we try to understand what a brain is ...

Remember ‘How I Met Your Mother’? The less said about its horrible ending, the better, but it did introduce us to a lot of relatable concepts that help define our day-to-day lives. One of these is ...

“There is simply no such thing as ‘social’ justice,” writes Jordan Peterson. “Whatever those who rely on this cliched phrase are aiming at has nothing whatsoever to do with justice. Justice is meted ...

The Clifford algebra is a unification and generalization of real number, complex number, quaternion, and vector algebra, which accurately and faithfully characterizes the intrinsic properties of space ...