I was having dinner with a visiting colleague this week when talk turned to what we were teaching this term. He mentioned the part of calculus dealing with infinite series (the bane of many students) ...

Yesterday, I posted an article about a math video that showed how you can sum up an infinite series of numbers to get a result of, weirdly enough, -1/12. A lot of stuff happened after I posted it.

It's been a while since I wrote a post in this series, but since I've been teaching Calculus 2 this term the time is right. This all began when a former student wrote to ask how we know that those ...

Analysis was founded in 1933 to provide a forum for short discussions of topics in philosophy. It quickly established itself as one of the characteristic journals of philosophy within the analytic ...

When you have an infinitely decreasing number does it ever hit a point where it is indistinguishable from the number it’s approaching? Does 0.999999999…, for instance, ever finally just become 1? A ...