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Alan Veliz-Cuba has received funding from the Simons Foundation and the American Mathematical Society for some of his research. You can probably think of a time when you’ve used math to solve an ...

It’s called “mathematical optimization. If you don’t already, I encourage you to think about your decision making in terms of your objectives, variables, and constraints. If a problem is measurable, ...

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