The distinction between formal and informal proofs has led to much examination of current and historical mathematical practice, quasi-empiricism in mathematics, and so-called folk mathematics, oral …

Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar[a] FRS (22 December 1887 – 26 April 1920) was an Indian mathematician who worked during the early 20th century. Despite having almost no formal training in pure …

Most computer programming languages provide function libraries that include the trigonometric functions. [52] The floating point unit hardware incorporated into the microprocessor chips used in …

The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art In the Han dynasty, numbers were developed into a place value decimal system and used on a counting board with a set of counting rods called rod calculus, …

The NAG Library is a collection of mathematical and statistical routines for multiple programming languages (C, C++, Fortran, Visual Basic, Java, Python and C#) and packages (MATLAB, Excel, R, …

The mathematical formulations of quantum mechanics are those mathematical formalisms that permit a rigorous description of quantum mechanics. This mathematical formalism uses mainly a part of …

In mathematics, exponentiation, denoted bn, is an operation involving two numbers: the base, b, and the exponent or power, n. [1] When n is a positive integer, exponentiation corresponds to repeated …

Portrait of Cardano on display at the School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews Gerolamo Cardano was the first European mathematician to make systematic use of negative …