The Babylonians used separate combinations of two symbols to represent every single number from 1 to 59. That sounds pretty confusing, doesn’t it? Our decimal system seems simple by comparison, with ...

The p-adics form an infinite collection of number systems based on prime numbers. They’re at the heart of modern number theory. The rational numbers are the most familiar numbers: 1, -5, ½, and every ...

As I told my class on Thursday, the theme of the first week of our math history course was “easy algebra is hard in base 60.” We started the semester in ancient Mesopotamia, trying to understand ...

This article, the first of a six-part series on the nervous system, describes the anatomy of the central nervous system and how it coordinates sensory information and bodily actions. This article, the ...

One Communications expressed support yesterday for the Public Utility Com-mission’s (PUC) introduction of number portability. Speaking with Stabroek News, One Communications Snr Manager PR and Content ...