One of the surprises of calculus is the fact that the derivatives and integrals of some functions look very different from the original functions. This is usually the case for inverse trigonometric and logarithm functions. These functions are...

A transcendental function is a function which does not satisfy a polynomial equation whose coefficients are themselves polynomials. Saying it more technically, a function of one variable is transcendental if it is algebraically independent of that...

Even though both "analytic" and "Continental" writers have in the twentieth century moved a long way from Immanuel Kant's transcendental philosophy, it is clear that both major currents of contemporary philosophy are profoundly, though often only implicitly, post-Kantian ways of thinking and crucially indebted...

looking at new york as it looks right through you You became a transcendental eyeball," she said. "Oh, God." I was telling a friend how I went to Grand central Terminal one night because ofthat left-behind feeling when the whole world...