(PhysOrg.com) -- Most people inherently understand that they have a unique way of studying material for a test that suits their unique personality. Unfortunately, such differences between people tend ...

Engineers work in quantifiable realism—an object exists and can be measured. Sometimes, though, the certainty of the object and how it will behave wavers. Researchers from the Automatic Control and ...

Building a good mathematics test is a surprisingly hard optimization problem. Every item in a test bank carries its own content domain, difficulty level, cognitive demand, and point value, and a ...

When most people hear the word algorithm, their eyes glaze over. It feels technical, mechanical, even boring. Something hidden inside lines of code that only engineers care about. But that’s a narrow ...

Most people, especially those who still have flashbacks about the Calculus SAT II, will probably not find the former all that surprising — they will just add it to the list of things they don’t like ...

There are, generally speaking, two types of people in the mathematical optimization software field: • Optimization solver developers: The technical experts who devise and implement the algorithms that ...

When people ask me why I, an applied mathematician, study diabetes, I tell them that I am motivated for both scientific and human reasons. Type 2 diabetes runs in my family. My grandfather died of ...