Math

Your Teachers Gave Credit To This Kooky Mathematician For Something He Never Did

And Forced You To…

“Deep” Independent Component Analysis in Tensorflow [ Manual Back Prop in TF ]

The “ Zero Power Rule” Explained

Exponents seem pretty straightforward, right? Raise a number to the power of 1 means you have one of that number, raise to the power of 2 means you have two of the number multiplied together, power 3 means three of the number multiplied together and so on.

Intro to Combinatorics

Combinations vs Permutations

We throw around the term “combination” loosely, and usually in the wrong way. We say things like, “Hey, what’s your locker combination?” but what we really ought to be sayings is “Hey, what’s your locker…

The Ramanujan Summation: 1 + 2 + 3 + ⋯ + ∞ = -1/12?

“What on earth are you talking about? There’s no way that’s true!” —…

Fast Ways to Simplify Radicals By Hand

Hello there! Today I’m showing you how to quickly and effectively simplify radicals of any index by hand. What’s the best part about this method? It’s (almost) foolproof…so long as you have a solid set of multiplication skills. Which, of course, I’m sure you do…

The Math of Being Single

We have a society that seems to be pretty abysmal at math. Hey, I’m not one to talk. I hate math. I was never good…

This Is Why Physicists Think String Theory Might Be Our ‘Theory Of Everything’

In 2015, Ed Witten, the…

∞⁰ = ∞, 1, or undefined. Which is it?

A couple days ago I wrote an article about the Ramanujan Summation, which to cut a long story short is a mathematical series that looks something like this: