Foreword Today, I will try to endeavour into the world of traditional Chinese as part of a (likely) series of blog posts about improving my Chinese abilities. Although I grew up in Beijing, I atte...

Whether you love Number Theory, math competitions, or just have an affinity for numbers, there are many reasons why you would want to familiarize with perfect square numbers: numbers of the form $ ...

A while ago, I came across this fascinating YouTube video by Numberphile about a number system called Cistercian Numerals. They were developed used by the Cistercian monastic order, a Catholic reli...

点击这里查看英文版文章。 注音符号（zhù yīn fú hào，ㄓㄨˋ ㄧㄣ ㄈㄨˊ ㄏㄠˋ）另称“bopomofo”，是现代汉语的标音系统之一，除了可以标注普通话，也可以用来标注其他汉语方言，例如闽南话。注音创立于二十世纪初（中华民国时期），虽然现今已大致被拼音取代，但在字典中还能看到。截至目前，注音依然是台湾的首要拼写系统。1 严格来讲，注音并不是字母，而是半音节表（Semi-sy...

Here is the Chinese version of this article. Zhuyin (Chinese: 注音, Pinyin: zhù yīn, Zhuyin: ㄓㄨˋ ㄧㄣ), also known as Bopomofo (which comes from its first four characters), is a Chinese transcriptio...

Motivation1 As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself stuck within a barren wasteland. Apparently, he has time travelled to the year 2637, and the day was March 14. The ...