The world belongs to the mathematicians and the physicists. We lay people may pump our minds with Discovery Channel specials, but they’re the ones who get to understand how it all really works–how the ...

At a basic level, data visualization is just presenting data in a visual way, but when we plot data, we’re usually trying to make a point or tell a story with images. Even this simple graph tells a ...

Complex numbers are numbers that consist of two parts — a real number and an imaginary number. Complex numbers are the building blocks of more intricate math, such as algebra. They can be applied to ...

Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Vol. 119, No. 858 (August 2007), pp. 898-913 (16 pages) ABSTRACT In this paper, we show how advanced visualization tools can help the ...