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Contents: Analytic functions of a complex variable (Part I) : Complex numbers. Equations to curves in the plane in terms of z and z*,The Riemann sphere and stereographic projection. Analytic functions of z and the Cauchy-Riemann conditions. The real...

Sometimes great works go unappreciated during their time. Other times their time knows exactly what they’re on about. The latter was the good fortune of Elite, Ian Bell and David Braben’s epic game of space combat, trading, and exploration...

This week’s release of the movie The Man Who Knew Infinity (which I saw in rough form last fall through its mathematican-producers Manjul Bhargava and Ken Ono) leads me to write about its subject, Srinivasa Ramanujan… A Remarkable Letter They used...

This month’s Insights column was an attempt to use simple puzzles to highlight the consequences of the infinity assumption in the physical world. The idea was sparked by an article by the physicist Max Tegmark that was written for the book, “This Idea...

My dear Arjuna, O son of Prtha, behold now My opulences, hundreds of thousands of varied divine forms, multicolored like the sea. – Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 11, Verse 5. We see first that here is a thought entirely different from what you see anywhere...