Knowing just how much inventory is enough for current or projected sales can be a daunting task for any business. Too much on-hand inventory can cut into profits, and too little inventory may mean ...

What if-and believe me, this is a hypothetical-you were trying to put a wild, rare, 200-hp naturally aspirated Autech SR20DE from the hottest of the nonturbo S15 Silvias into a first-generation Miata, ...

The famous mathematical ratio, estimated to more than 22 trillion digits (and counting), is the perfect symbol for our species’ long effort to tame infinity. By Steven Strogatz This article, ...

The Applied Mathematics Graduate Group is an interdisciplinary group of over 90 faculty and is recognized for the mathematical rigor of its programs and its dynamic research atmosphere. The program is ...

Whether it's Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling, Andy Warhol's Campbell's soup cans, or ancient humans' lustrous cave paintings, the creation of art is an inherently human story. By applying a ...

My colleague Joni Lakin, Assistant Professor at Auburn University, sends me her latest paper titled “Sex differences in reasoning abilities: Surprising evidence that male-female ratios in the tails of ...

New research from the University of Waterloo suggests increasing the ratio of dietary potassium to sodium intake may be more effective for lowering blood pressure than simply reducing sodium intake.

The dimensions of the 1600-year-old Delhi Iron Pillar have been re-analysed in light of new scholarship on the traditional Indian unit of measurement. The dimensions of the pillar can be well ...

Mathematical analysis and modelling is an important part of infectious disease epidemiology. Application of mathematical models to disease surveillance data can be used to address both scientific ...