Description: 👉 Learn how to find the geometric sum of a series. A series is the sum of the terms of a sequence. A geometric series is the sum of the terms of a geometric sequence. The formula for the ...

For more than two millennia, mathematicians have produced a growing heap of pi equations in their ongoing search for methods to calculate pi faster and faster. The pile of equatio ...

I was having dinner with a visiting colleague this week when talk turned to what we were teaching this term. He mentioned the part of calculus dealing with infinite series (the bane of many students) ...

Yesterday, I posted an article about a math video that showed how you can sum up an infinite series of numbers to get a result of, weirdly enough, -1/12. A lot of stuff happened after I posted it.

It's been a while since I wrote a post in this series, but since I've been teaching Calculus 2 this term the time is right. This all began when a former student wrote to ask how we know that those ...

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Some numbers are useful. Some are famous. And then there is pi, a number so absurdly powerful that humanity has spent ...