David E. Dunning explores how mathematical notation is a social, world-building technology. It’s natural to think of math as being fundamentally abstract. Whether it’s invented or discovered, its ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s notebook What is the purpose of a poem, an illustration or a nonsensical phrase in a score? If it makes musicians stop and think, that’s a ...

An etching of Guido d’Arezzo, from an early 20th century book (Photo: Volodymyr Polotovskyi/Dreamstime) Guido’s work quickly spread through monasteries and ...

In context: Windows has included a proprietary JavaScript engine since the release of Internet Explorer 3.0 nearly 30 years ago. Technically, JScript is Microsoft's own dialect of the ...

Dr. James McCaffrey presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of linear regression using JavaScript. Linear regression is the simplest machine learning technique to predict a single numeric value, ...

An ellipsis, \ldots, can be read as “and so on.” For example, 1, 2, 3, \ldots, 100 denotes the list of all numbers from 1 to 100, and 1 + 2 + 3 + \dots + 100 denotes the sum of all integers from 1 to ...

A set is an unordered collection of objects. Typically, we use upper-case letters to denote sets, and lower-case letters to denote objects belonging to a set (though not always). We use \in to ...

The bad news is that there is no single solution to Rule 16. There’s not even a daily solution, the puzzle will be different each time you play the game. So you’re going to have to do one of two ...

Have you ever wondered how musicians can sight-read complex melodies with ease? The secret may lie in a powerful system called solfa notation. This centuries-old method of reading and writing music ...