Amid the chaos of revolutionary France, one man’s mathematical obsession gave way to a calculation that now underpins much of ...

CPython's C-API has GIL acquiring/releasing functions such as PyGILState_Ensure and PyGILState_Release. Programmers can call CPython's C-APIs from outside of Python threads if they manage GIL's state ...

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This week on Book­shelf, I turn to a writer who was way ahead of her time, per­haps even ahead of ours. George Eliot, born Mary Ann Evans in 1819 re­ject­ed every con­ven­tion re­quired of a woman of ...

Trigonometry is often aligned with right-angled triangles only. However, an understanding of trigonometry can also be extended to non-right angle triangles to find unknown sides or angles. The Sine ...

A common objection to “sin taxes”—corrective taxes on goods like cigarettes, alcohol, and sugary drinks, which are believed to be over-consumed—is that they fall disproportionately on low-income ...

Aimed at scientists and engineers, this book is an exciting intellectual journey through the mathematical worlds of Euclid, Newton, Maxwell, Einstein, and Schrodinger-Dirac. While similar books ...

"The book introduces a background to the phenomena so blatantly disregarded in the reform movements on mathematics education: the consideration of what is knowledge … I find chapter 3 a very important ...