This is the second post (here’s the first one) about an approach to introducing the derivative to calculus students that is counter to what I’ve seen in textbooks and other traditional treatments of ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Many data are suitably modeled by functions consisting of straight-line segments. These functions may be called piecewise-linear. Smooth ...

This paper considers a stochastic shortest path problem where the arc lengths are independent random variables following a normal distribution. In this problem, the optimal path is one that maximizes ...