Malcontent Wes popped into the comments of our recent post on the mathematical improbability of vampires with a link to a blog post with a great math-vampire analogy: vampires are the imaginary ...

Imaginary numbers were once seen as impossible, but they became essential tools in solving real mathematical problems. Another Trump official is causing global outrage Eminem couldn’t ignore MGK’s ...

Mathematicians were disturbed, centuries ago, to find that calculating the properties of certain curves demanded the seemingly impossible: numbers that, when multiplied by themselves, turn negative.