Imagining Archimedes

The use of Laplace Transforms in control theory and in signal analysis took off after WWII and has become a widely established tool of ana...

Pierre Simon Laplace (1749-1827) is a giant figure in the history of mathematics and astronomy. His career coincided with great upheava...

The idea that functions can be either "odd" or "even" is an initially a surprising idea. Yes, a number can be odd ...

We all have sensitive points ! I find that discussion of the 1976 Olympic Men's Hockey final distressing (Yes, Australia lost to N...

Wolfram Alpha is a web based tool that allows you carry out quite sophisicated mathematical operations, producing both analytical and graph...

Today, I commence lecturing in HMS 112 (the second session subject mathematics subject for first year students at Swinburne), which is excit...

As occasional visitors of my blog would know, I am a great enthusiast for http://www.wolframalpha.com/ . For those unfamiliar with the Wol...