The women behind "Moebius Noodles: Adventurous Math for the Playground Crowd" are back with another fun math game they call Function Machines. I introduced Maria Droujkova and Yelena McManaman last ...
Images held by 271 college students and 36 junior high school teachers for the concept of a mathematical function were compared to the definitions they gave for the concept. A questionaire was ...
We consider the problem of finding local minimizers in nonconvex and non-smooth optimization. The objective function we consider is in the form of the sum of a nonconvex function and a l1-penalty.