It’s time for us all to understand the Exponential Function. One of the hallmarks of COVID-19 is its exponential nature, with numbers of infected currently doubling about every 4 days in the US. This ...

You’ve probably heard the term tossed around in recent weeks — exponential growth. But what is it, and what does it have to do with the coronavirus pandemic? The phrase, sometimes used in math classes ...

What’s the greatest shortcoming of the human race? I’m sure we all have some suggestions, but according to physicist Albert Bartlett, it is “our inability to understand the exponential function.” ...

From a statistical perspective, relationships among variables may take a broad array of forms. Sometimes, two variables may be unrelated to one another, such as (presumably) the scores on some college ...

A PHASE relation familiar to students of applied mathematics exists between a simple harmonic oscillation and its derivative. Similar relations exist between exponential functions and their ...

Exponential growth is a basic concept in math that occurs when a quantity keeps doubling itself over and over. This can lead to astonishingly large numbers very quickly. Exponential growth is a big ...