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A facility location problem is the problem of deciding where a given public facility (e.g. a school or a power station) should be placed. This problem has been studied from various angles. Optimal facility location is an optimization problem: deciding where to place the facility in order to minimize transportation costs while considering ...
The hard problem of consciousness is the question of what consciousness is and why we have consciousness as opposed to being philosophical zombies. The adjective "hard" is to contrast with the "easy" consciousness problems, which seek to explain the mechanisms of consciousness ("why" versus "how", or final cause versus efficient cause ).
Mathematics Portal. v. t. e. In contemporary education, mathematics education —known in Europe as the didactics or pedagogy of mathematics —is the practice of teaching, learning, and carrying out scholarly research into the transfer of mathematical knowledge.
The Hamiltonian path problem is a topic discussed in the fields of complexity theory and graph theory. It decides if a directed or undirected graph, G, contains a Hamiltonian path, a path that visits every vertex in the graph exactly once. The problem may specify the start and end of the path, in which case the starting vertex s and ending ...
Hero of Alexandria ( / ˈhɪəroʊ /; Greek: Ἥρων [1] ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς, Hērōn hò Alexandreús, also known as Heron of Alexandria / ˈhɛrən /; fl. 60 AD) was a Greek mathematician and engineer who was active in his native city of Alexandria in Egypt during the Roman era. He is often considered the greatest experimenter of ...
In geometry, the kissing number of a mathematical space is defined as the greatest number of non-overlapping unit spheres that can be arranged in that space such that they each touch a common unit sphere. For a given sphere packing (arrangement of spheres) in a given space, a kissing number can also be defined for each individual sphere as the ...
Optimization problem. In mathematics, engineering, computer science and economics, an optimization problem is the problem of finding the best solution from all feasible solutions . Optimization problems can be divided into two categories, depending on whether the variables are continuous or discrete: An optimization problem with discrete ...
Mathematical optimization (alternatively spelled optimisation) or mathematical programming is the selection of a best element, with regard to some criterion, from some set of available alternatives. [1] [2] It is generally divided into two subfields: discrete optimization and continuous optimization.