Ask ordinary software developers how to code an exponential function (that is, e x) and most will tell you to simply write an expression in their favorite high level language. But a significant slice ...

Sure, “exponential growth” sounds impressive. But it usually isn’t. By Manil Suri Dr. Suri teaches math at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Here’s a trend I find worrisome enough to ...

Mathematics of Computation, Vol. 40, No. 162 (Apr., 1983), pp. 547-559 (13 pages) Rational approximations to the exponential function are considered. Let $R = P/Q ...

How far and how fast will the Covid-19 pandemic spread? That question is on everyone’s mind, and it’s something most of us don’t have a good intuition for. The problem is that our human brains tend to ...

Dr. McLaren is an associate professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, who studies policies to combat infectious disease epidemics, including Covid-19. The United States has vaccinated ...

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Any function and its inverse are symmetrical about the line\(y = x\).