New studies show that ancient Babylonians developed a precursor to calculus, using it to chart the movements of Jupiter across the night sky. Newton and Liebniz spent years battling to be recognized ...

Looks like it's time to rewrite the history books again — and the math books, while we're at it. An elementary form of calculus thought to have been discovered some 700 years ago may be three times as ...

While meat thermometers are a good way to find out if your turkey is safe to eat, students at Central Michigan University ...

This is more of a rant than anything else. Forgive me if it sounds Lounge-y. I've been a Windows sysadmin for 12 years. I enrolled in a Computer Science degree program to make a transition into ...

The following is an excerpt of Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe by Steven Strogatz. Without calculus, we wouldn’t have cell phones, computers, or microwave ovens. We ...

Maplesoft has launched a teaching kit to help instructors of first- and second-year calculus use its mathematics software. "Teaching Calculus with Maple: A Complete Kit," free to Maple and Maple T.A.

It's funny, I had the toughest time with Discrete Math in college - although to be fair the CS peeps got to take a version taught by the CS dept, while us CompE's had to take the graduate level class ...