IN every particular Theory of Nature there can J. only be so much real Science as is vouched for by Mathematics.” Since Kant wrote these words it has become increasingly true that mathematics is an ...

The Pigeonhole Principle is a really simple concept, discovered all the way back in the 1800s. It has explained everything from the amount of hair on people’s heads to fundamental principles of ...

What is mathematics? We attempt to comprehend, but the definitions unfortunately further confound. They frustrate by glancing off the edges of a subject as infinite and indefinable as the discipline ...

THE appearance of a book addressed equally to mathematicians and to philosophers, setting forth alt the assistance which philosophy can afford in the shape of material for mathematics to work with, is ...

Embodiment theory, simply put, is the idea that all aspects of cognition are rooted in the body. According to this theory, the motor and perceptual systems of the human body have a great influence on ...

A scholar from Kenyon College, Professor of Mathematics Carol Schumacher, is coming to Bates to give two back-to-back talks on Sept. 29 as part of the Annual Richard W. Sampson Lecture Series. Both ...