Our February Insights puzzle sent readers on a treasure hunt based on complex numbers. First we provided a bit of a primer, demonstrating that complex numbers (expressions of the form a + bi, where ...

Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to ...

An imaginary number is a number that, when squared, has a negative result. Essentially, an imaginary number is the square root of a negative number and does not have a tangible value. While it is not ...

Mathematics is more than just numbers; it is a language that structures the world around us. Mastering mathematical ...