The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at UC Berkeley, George Dantzig—a first-year graduate student—copied two problems ...
Abstract: This article studies the two-dimensional (2-D) rectangle packing area minimization problem (RPAMP), a key subproblem in floor planning for very large-scale integration (VLSI) chip design.
Neuroscience examines the structure and function of the human brain and nervous system. Neuroscientists use cellular and molecular biology, anatomy and physiology, human behavior and cognition, and ...