Grade school math students are likely familiar with teachers admonishing them not to just guess the answer to a problem. But a new proof establishes that, in fact, the right kind of guessing is ...

Scientists have long struggled to solve the puzzle of the gearing system on the front of the so-called Antikythera mechanism—a fragmentary ancient Greek astronomical calculator, perhaps the earliest ...

Some special cases of the potential for a homogeneous cylinder in a cylindrical coordinate system may be treated by virtue of simple integrals, for example, the potential for a straight rod or wire ...