This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The work described in this article was based on a historical perspective in order to analyze the extension of the natural-number domain to the ...

The set $A$ of natural numbers is an asymptotic basis for $S$ if the sets $S$ and $2A$ eventually coincide. An asymptotic basis $A$ for $S$ is minimal if no proper ...

We humans seem to be born with a number line in our head. But a May 30 study in Science suggests it may look less like an evenly segmented ruler and more like a logarithmic slide rule on which the ...

Numbers hide complex relationships that are tough to imagine. So here’s a pretty picture that brings them to light. The world belongs to the mathematicians and the physicists. We lay people may pump ...