Sometimes when people think too deeply about things they can suffer depression or discover something new that was never discovered before. Georg Ferdinand Lugwig Philipp Cantor (say that fast 3 times in a row) did both. Countable Infinity Cantor, a German Mathematician born in 1845, created set theory now well known in mathematics. One main area he investigated is a […]
Vectors and Scalars Are Your Friends for Life
Vectors and scalars are two mathematical ideas that are used all the time in math and science. The most basic of the two is a scalar. A scalar is just a number – a quantity. That’s it! So, if I had 3 cats, 2 dogs, and 5 birds, the 3, 2, and 5 are all scalar values. A vector, on […]