Mathematics Archive
Orders of Magnitude
The Order of Magnitude of a number is an approximation of its logarithm. Simply put, the order of magnitude tells us the scale of a number. Whether it is in the tens, hundreds, thousands, millions, and so on, or in […]
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Domain of a Function
The Domain of a Function is a term in mathematics referring to all of the $x$ values where a function is defined. In more technical language, it is the mathematical set of all inputs where the function is defined. One […]
Continue ReadingThe Rational Numbers — Natural Numbers, Whole Numbers, and Integers
The numbers that we use for counting are called the natural numbers. These are the first numbers that were invented, and are so named because they are a natural experience of reality: if you see apples on the ground, whatever […]
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A Brief History of Numbers
Mathematics is often called the language of science because, at its foundation, science is the quantization of reality — of the Universe and of Nature — into fundamental laws that describe numerical quantities and relationships of the behavior and phenomena […]
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The Tangent Problem
The word tangent itself is derived from the Latin word tangens, which means “touching.” In mathematics and in geometry, a tangent line is a line drawn that touches a curve at an angle perfectly parallel to that particular section of […]
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