This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The work described in this article was based on a historical perspective in order to analyze the extension of the natural-number domain to the ...

We humans seem to be born with a number line in our head. But a May 30 study in Science suggests it may look less like an evenly segmented ruler and more like a logarithmic slide rule on which the ...

From Quanta Magazine (find original story here). In a breakthrough that disproves decades of conventional wisdom, two mathematicians have shown that two different variants of infinity are actually the ...