The screenwriter of the new Harriet Tubman biopic claimed that a Hollywood executive once suggested that Julia Roberts play the black American icon. ... (more…)

On Dec 8, 1919 Julia Robinson was born, so today is close to her 100th birthday (she passed away at the age of 65 on July 30, 1985). S... (more…)

Arrays are a crucial component of any programming language, particularly for a data-oriented language like Julia. Arrays store values according to their location: in Julia, given a two-dimensional array A, the expression A[1,3] returns the value stored a... (more…)

Visual demo of how a Julia set ( c=.274-.008i) can be generated from repeated transformations of a circle. Please see http://www.karlsims.com/julia.html for ... (more…)

In 1998, the Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico began imaging every visible object from over 35% of the sky in a project known as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The images include around 500 million stars and galaxies. Light from the most distant of th... (more…)