When a 13-year old Marie-Sophie Germain was stuck in the house because of the chaotic revolution on the streets of Paris in 1789, she found a refuge for her active mind: her father’s mathematics books ...

There is a concept used in calculus and economics called “elasticity.” This idea measures the percent change in one variable as another variable experiences a one percent change. This is often used to ...

THIS is the third edition of the classical treatise in the English language upon the theory of elasticity, and all students of the subject will be grateful to Prof. Love for having brought his ...