To a nonmathematician, having the letter “i” represent a number that does not quite exist and is “imaginary” can be hard to ...

Using mathematical modeling, Tarnita explores how animals self-organize in groups and what causes regular spatial patterns to ...

Like physics, math has its own set of “fundamental particles”—the prime numbers, which can’t be broken down into smaller natural numbers. They can only be divided by themselves and 1. And in a new ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Imaginary numbers push the boundaries of calculus and other branches of math. Hill Street Studios/DigitalVision via Getty Images ...