There is a rule in mathematics that feels so obvious it barely seems worth stating. Yet accepting it leads to objects with no size, spheres that duplicate themselves, and sets that cannot be measured ...

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Visually, the “Klein bottle” doesn’t seem all that impressive. On first glance it looks like a trendy Japandi-style vase. And yet it has fascinated mathematicians for more than 140 years. To ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In the mid-twentieth century, ...

What do the integers have in common with the symmetries of a triangle? In the 19th century, mathematicians invented groups as an answer to this question. Mathematics started with numbers — clear, ...

Object is the root object of all prototypes in JavaScript. Aside from providing the foundation for the JavaScript object model, Object imparts important methods such as toString() and assign(). Every ...

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This proposal consists of two related extensions to the Math object: additional functions for integer math and true modulus for integers and floats. This proposal adds functionality that missing from ...