Aphantasia, the inability to form mental images, poses a serious challenge to an influential theory of abstract thought in ...

Summary: Researchers argue that aphantasia, the complete inability to voluntarily form mental images, fundamentally shatters ...

For more than 60 years, Professor Gilbert Strang has turned a linear algebra classroom at the Massachusetts Institute of ...

Researchers around the world are racing to develop new quantum-based systems for sensing, communication, computing and ...

David E. Dunning explores how mathematical notation is a social, world-building technology. It’s natural to think of math as being fundamentally abstract. Whether it’s invented or discovered, its ...

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This is a solution manual for Paolo Aluffi's ALGEBRA, Chapter 0, a textbook that introduces abstract algebra using the language of categories. I find this approach to be particularly appealing. So I'm ...

How can the behavior of elementary particles and the structure of the entire universe be described using the same mathematical concepts? This question is at the heart of recent work by the ...