I recently found a pretty neat mathematical book entitled How not to be wrong: The power of mathematical thinking by Jordan Ellenberg. The author outlines real-life applications that show how ...

A scientific calculator has two 'log' buttons on it. These are marked log and ln. The log key is used for calculations of the form \({\log _{10}}x\). For example, to work out that \(\log 10000 = 4\) ...

Consider a sequence of independent and identically distributed random variables with the underlying distribution in the domain of attraction of a stable distribution with an exponent in (0, 2]. Define ...