Amid the chaos of revolutionary France, one man’s mathematical obsession gave way to a calculation that now underpins much of mathematics and physics. The calculation, called the Fourier transform, ...

Humans are born to do math, and they have the brain infrastructure to prove it—including a cluster of specialized nerve cells for processing numbers. Despite this dedicated cluster, mathematical ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In mathematics education, researchers have proposed a wide range of improvements of teaching practice in school, but only a few of these ...