At a meeting of 6,000 mathematicians in Boston, a reporter finds people dancing, crocheting, knitting and using theater to explore and celebrate their discipline.

Many mathematical operations are easier to handle in this way. “For instance, expression simplification amounts to finding a shorter equivalent representation of a tree,” say Lample and Charton.

You can pass JEP (a Java mathematical expression) a string of mathematical operations to perform and get back an answer. See how you can start using JEP in your development work.