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History and philosophy of mathematics, biographies of mathematicians, mathematics education, recreational mathematics, communication of mathematics.
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Why are optimization problems often called "programs"?
When the term "linear programming" first came into use, computers were still very rare beasts, and the term "computer programming" wasn't that widely used. Here "programming" meant planning. As rese …
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Understanding the rationale behind "batch means" estimation
The variance of the mean of $n$ random variables is
$\mbox{Var}(\bar{x})=\mbox{Var}(\sum_{i=1}^{n} x_{i}/n)$
$\mbox{Var}(\bar{x})=\sum_{i=1}^{n} (1/n)^{2} \mbox{Var}(x_{i})$
$\mbox{Var}(\bar{x})=n …
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