For sheer brilliance, it was hard to beat John von Neumann. An architect of the modern computer and inventor of game theory, von Neumann was legendary, above all, for his lightning-fast mental ...

Although we have no idea why you would want to create Math in Infinite Craft when the accursed class still lingers on the dark side of my school memories, IGN has you covered! Built from the ash of ...

I was having dinner with a visiting colleague this week when talk turned to what we were teaching this term. He mentioned the part of calculus dealing with infinite series (the bane of many students) ...

Important update, Jan. 17 at 18:00 UTC: There have been a lot of objections raised about the video mentioned below and the way I describe the math therein. It’s more than I can simply add or update ...

It's been a while since I wrote a post in this series, but since I've been teaching Calculus 2 this term the time is right. This all began when a former student wrote to ask how we know that those ...

The generalization of Shanks' $e$-transformation to double series is discussed and a class of nonlinear transformations, the $\lbrack A/S \rbrack_R$ transformations ...