In the third century BCE, Apollonius of Perga asked how many circles one could draw that would touch three given circles at exactly one point each. It would take 1,800 years to prove the answer: eight ...

The information and materials presented here are intended to provide a description of the course goals for current and prospective students as well as others who are interested in our courses. It is ...

THE authors of this volume have taken for their aim the axiom that the best preparation for the calculus is a suitable course in co-ordinate geometry. The text is thus divided into two sections: the ...

To mathematicians, equations are art. Just as many are moved by a painting or piece of music, to those who appreciate and understand math, expressions of numbers, variables, operations and relations ...