The problem for this issue appeared in the delightful book Programming Pearls by Jon Bentley, Addison-Wesley, 1986. Here he presents this issue's problem as a lesson in ...

Fractal curves in the plane can be described by an iterative process of replacing lines by templates. We define our own language for describing such curves. Computing their ...

Databases are the most important commercial application of computers. Everybody seems to collect data of some sort. We will look at relational databases, explain their ...

We discuss a method for visualizing the workings of three standard sorting algorithms. The method uses "hooks" in an auxiliary function to obtain run-time data without ...

Tools are developed to represent finite groups and to perform many group operations. These tools help students to understand group structures by allowing them to experiment ...

This item contains a package for symbolic manipulation of harmonic functions. For more information, see http://www.axler.net/HFT_Math.html.

A recent National Research Council report estimates that 30% of all employed physicists and astronomers, and 33% of all employed chemists, work in materials. In 1986, ...