The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Calculus is a powerful mathematical tool. But for hundreds of years after its invention in the 17th century, it stood on a shaky ...

In the late 19th century, Karl Weierstrass invented a fractal-like function that was decried as nothing less than a “deplorable evil.” In time, it would transform the foundations of mathematics.

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Let f be a positive real-valued function defined on an interval I ⊆ R. The function f is said to be log-convex if logf is convex on I. In this ...

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