To run a stepper motor smoothly, it's necessary to apply linear acceleration. However, conventional algorithms to generate linear acceleration require complicated mathematics, which makes it difficult ...

The problem is efficiency. Maxwell's equations are completely linear, so nonlinear optics relies entirely on materials with nonlinear response to optical fields. Unfortunately these responses deviate ...

Integer linear programming can help find the answer to a variety of real-world problems. Now researchers have found a much faster way to do it. Inspired by the results of a game-playing neural network ...

Middle School teacher Dan Powell sees math in Shakespeare. Or is Shakespeare in the math? Powell, a math teacher fond of quoting the Elizabethan playwright, often blurs the line between creative arts ...

How is that doubling and not squaring? Is that a domain-specific use of the word doubling that's different from the everyday one? Normally "doubling" would be the function f(x) = 2x. Click to expand..