One of the concepts I teach in my Quantitative Reasoning class is the idea of “Exponential Growth.” Such growth, where a variable grows by a fixed percent, is found in such things as population growth ...

Mathematician Eugenia Cheng explores the uses of math beyond the classroom. Read more columns here. In the era of Covid-19, exponentials have been in the public eye more than usual, since they are at ...

Suppose you saw in the news that there was a new disease, and one person was hospitalized with it. There had been no hospitalizations before today—and yet, there ...