Algebra
Explore mathematics articles on the theme of algebra.
180 seconds of popular science | Tangente
Three minutes flat is not long to sum up a thesis—especially when the presentation has to be accessible to a wide audience. That is the daunting challenge faced each year by a number of French-speaking doctoral students in "My Thesis in 180 Seconds," modelled on the English-language Three Minute Thesis competition.
André-Louis Cholesky: soldier-scholar and algebraist
In numerical analysis, the Cholesky method is a celebrated example of a scientific discovery made in one field—military geodesy—that went on to find applications in an ever-growing number of others.
A logarithm beneath the hyperbola | Tangente Magazine
Although Napier introduced them purely as an aid to calculation, logarithms gradually permeated every branch of mathematics. Their fundamental nature emerged particularly clearly through their connections with geometry, trigonometry and the hyperbola.