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 ...

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Three cones have the same volume as one cylinder of the same diameter and height. Remember the volume of a cylinder is \(\pi r^2 h\). The volume of the cone is one third of the volume of the cylinder.