Biography of Mathematician Mr. David Blackwell
Essay - 4 pages - Mathematics
David Blackwell is a famous African-American mathematician who has contributed so much in the field of mathematics in the statisticalfield theory. David was born in 1919 in Illinois. He died in 2010 at the age of 91. He was born to a father who was a worker in a railway station and his mother...
Petroleum industry and modelling under uncertainty
Essay - 6 pages - Mathematics
In the current paper, we present how the proposed Monte Carlo simulation algorithm can be used in the context of production optimization in the oil and gas industry. Petroleum refining begins with the distillation, or fractionation, of crude oils into separate hydrocarbon groups. The resultant...
Divergent profiles and generating profiles: an original univariate forecasting model
Essay - 26 pages - Mathematics
The purpose of this study is to present a global uni-variate forecasting model, which runs on the basis of a series of data points acquired periodically for each unit observed. The examples of units that we will be using in this article may come from any type of population: companies, bank...
Variants on the game of Nim
Essay - 12 pages - Mathematics
Long before rock and roll, television, and computer generated dinosaurs, a group of stones was all that was needed to provide hours of entertainment and learning for the Chinese. Thousands of years ago in China, the fascinating game of Nim was created and continues to challenge minds today. Nim...
History of mathematics in China
Essay - 24 pages - Mathematics
“Chinese mathematics” was defined by Chinese in ancient times as the “art of calculation”. This art was both a practical and a spiritual one. Like in Europe, many traces of calculations and solutions of equations were found by archaeologists. Today, these archaeological...
