QuickStudy: The Singularity

July 26, 2006 | Source: Computerworld

Before it became the province of futurists, the word singularity had significance in both mathematics and the physical sciences.

A mathematical singularity is a point at which a function is not “well behaved.” According to Wolfram MathWorld, it “blows up or becomes degenerate” — that is, it stops working in a predictable way….