WILLIAMSTOWN -- William Wootters has a conundrum -- a mathematical conundrum. Wootters is a physics professor at Williams College, and on Thursday he's one of the presenters of the Williams Faculty ...

Author DAS MANN Jones was detained in a foreign land when he wrote The Square Root of Negative One. He was dismayed by the status quo and was held against his will.With his longing for justice and ...

Westworld episode 2 features yet another simulation, this time trapping Maeve. Maeve is able to break the system, however, by asking it to perform the math problem "the square root of negative one." ...

Let us look at some interesting facts about squares and square roots. A square and its square root are the reverse of each other. But what happens to squares and square roots of negative numbers? When ...