The Babylonian civilization was at its peak roughly 4,000 years ago, with architecturally advanced cities throughout the region known today as Iraq. Babylonians were especially brilliant with math, ...

The three sides of a right-angled triangle have special names. The hypotenuse (\(h\)) is the longest side. It is opposite the right angle. The opposite side (\(o\)) is opposite the angle in question ( ...

In 2022, two high school students created a trigonometric proof of the Pythagorean Theorem—something that’s only ever been accomplished by a few professional mathematicians. Now, a new article not ...

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This article proposes a method of moments technique for estimating the sparsity of signals in a random sample. This involves estimating the largest eigenvalue of a large Hermitian trigonometric matrix ...