The problem of local linear approximation to a curved boundary using gridded data is closely connected to both curve estimation methods in statistics and rational approximation in number theory. The ...

Earlier this summer, we posted about a study that revealed that monkeys could listen to a series of beeps and then equate it to a visual representation of the same number. One of the researchers ...

Real numbers are, in fact, pretty much any number that you can think of. This can include whole numbers or integers, fractions, rational numbers and irrational numbers. Real numbers can be positive or ...