The ancient Babylonians were a remarkable bunch. Among many extraordinary achievements, they found a now-famous mathematical solution to an unpleasant challenge: paying tax. The particular problem for ...

Everyone learns (and some readers maybe still remember) the quadratic formula. It’s a pillar of algebra and allows you to solve equations like Ax 2 +Bx+C=0. But just because you’ve used it doesn’t ...

The Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol. 47, No. 3 (Mar., 1996), pp. 457-462 (6 pages) In this paper we present a new branch and bound algorithm for solving a class of integer quadratic ...