You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. One of the more pervasive concepts in math that is often counterintuitive and leads to surprising ...

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 ...

Exponential growth is a notoriously difficult concept to understand. This difficulty can be illustrated by an old Indian legend about a king who was tricked by one of his advisers, saying "Noble lord, ...