As explained in a previous article, there is an infinite number of numbers. But what's more important is that there are different types of numbers with unique properties that makes them useful in one kind of mathematics while at the same time makes it seems like they are useless.

In this article, we will be addressing the different types of numbers. For their use on the other hand, we will be needing your help.

What do we mean by exponential growth? How quickly does your bank balance grow? How quickly does a cup of tea cool, or radium decay? What shape is a washing line and what is the link with a single mysterious number?

​Sometimes a solution can be reduced to a single element.

It's funny how some of the things we do to stave off boredom tent to be things that stimulate or challenge our minds. Or maybe it's not a coincidence? The Sumerians who developed the first concepts that eventually became mathematics also developed the particularly compelling Royal Game of Ur, and the same can be said with Indians and chess.

Coincidence? I think not!

Mathematics, the basis of everything from physics to chemistry to biology. And hence, it must be older than any of them. So to understand nature and it's inner workings, we must first understand maths.

And what better way to understand something than to trace its history and development?

Remember when we used to dabble with alien geometries? IFSA is going back to our roots (which was planted in our first article about our logo), and this time we're tackling a cousin of that nefarious Mobius strip...