To a nonmathematician, having the letter “i” represent a number that does not quite exist and is “imaginary” can be hard to ...

Thinking about various sci-fi concepts for FTL travel and such, I decided to write a program on my calculator to calculate time dilation. For those of you who don't know what that means; the faster ...

The square root of a negative number could easily be regarded as a curious mathematical construction that has little bearing on real life. Indeed, the French polymath René Descartes gave such numbers ...