For certain cubics, we use elliptic (that is, doubly-periodic) functions. When we come to curves of higher orders we need theta functions, which are multiply-periodic.

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A function is exponentially concave if its exponential is concave. We consider exponentially concave functions on the unit simplex. In a previous paper, we showed that gradient maps of exponentially ...

How can the behavior of elementary particles and the structure of the entire universe be described using the same mathematical concepts? This question is at the heart of recent work by the ...

Students see that geometric transformations—dilation and translation—correspond to algebraic parameters—m and b—in the familiar equation for a linear function.

Then came the math. I am a 38-year-old writer who uses Google to calculate percentages. Suddenly I was looking at algebra. Geometry. Functions.