Modern data architectures require highly optimized code. A raw Python script cannot process a ten-gigabyte dataset effectively. To solve this problem engineering teams use pre-compiled Python ...

These are my go-to libraries for Python data crunching.

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 ...

This year has seen some amazing advancements in fundamental mathematics. Researchers have made breakthroughs in geometry, topology, chaos theory, and more. And a startling three of our top 10 ...

At the lowest point of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln characterized the core factor between victory and defeat as finding a general who understood the “awful arithmetic” of war. War is a contest of ...

Python has become one of the most popular programming languages out there, particularly for beginners and those new to the hacker/maker world. Unfortunately, while it’s easy to get something up and ...

For the past several years, America has been using its young people as lab rats in a sweeping, if not exactly thought-out, education experiment. Schools across the country have been lowering standards ...

In programming—and computer science in general—an expression is something which can be evaluated—that is, a syntactically valid combination of constants, variables, functions, and operators which ...

When presenting expressions, we saw examples of common arithmetic operations: addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Here we will present two additional operations which are closely ...

Hello everyone. This is CC from Cograph Co., Ltd. In this post, I have summarized the functions that every Python beginner should know, based on the various practice problems I have been working on as ...

Here is the easy math that solves the most significant business problem of them all: how to optimize millions of operational decisions. Deep down, we all know that we should embrace difficulties ...