Calculus Archive

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 […]

$The Tangent Problem$

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 […]