Without qualification, the question of whether complex numbers are necessary for natural sciences, and, more concretely, for physics, must be answered in the negative: physics experiments are ...

In the early 1970s mathematician Donald Knuth spent a sabbatical with his wife in Norway. The time was meant to be spent relaxing. Yet one night he woke up his partner in a state of agitation. He ...

Mathematics is a foundation of modern science. Most of natural science and engineering is unimaginable in the absence of calculus and differential equations. The deepest theories of modern physics ...