Cooks use math to make beautiful food all the time: Slicing eight perfect pieces of pie or doubling a recipe requires basic knowledge of fractions, for example. But how many cooks think about using ...

Mathematics of Operations Research, Vol. 38, No. 2 (May 2013), pp. 248-264 (17 pages) In this paper, we address the basic geometric question of when a given convex set is the image under a linear map ...

"Conic sections" are the four kinds of curves that result when a plane slices through a cone. But if you forgot that bit of high school algebra,... Cooks use math to make beautiful food all the time: ...