The sweat pours down like rain even when you're just standing still. You chug down ice water, but it's not enough to cool you down. Ah, what you desperately need is a bowl of Pyeongyang naengmyeon ...

A new, simple form of a cubic equation of state (EOS) has been developed in a recent study. A comparison to experimental data and other cubic equations of state show that the new EOS is more accurate.

§CQ.1 THE FIRST GREAT ADVANCE in algebra after the Middle Ages was the general solution of the cubic equation, immediately followed by a solution for the quartic. I tell the full story in the next ...