You thought I was going to talk about a problem that math teachers could use, didn't you? Well, maybe math teachers can use this. (note: when I say "teachers" I really mean "learning facilitators") It ...

Imagine you're cooking a new recipe. You have the ingredients, the instructions and the tools. Yet, as you cook, you run into problems: some ingredients need more prep time, the oven heats unevenly ...

The subject of this paper is the M/G/∞ estimation problem: the goal is to estimate the service time distribution G of the M/G/∞ queue from the arrival–departure observations without identification of ...

The art of estimations is pretty much a physicist's bread and butter. We all love a good estimation problem. You might also hear these called a "back of the envelope" calculation, or a calculation on ...

Though conceptually appealing, it is impossible to fully account in practice for all the individual decisions and behaviors that constitute the nation’s water use. Nevertheless, statistical sampling ...