Cooks use math to make beautiful food all the time: Slicing eight perfect pieces of pie or doubling a recipe requires basic knowledge of fractions, for example. But how many cooks think about using ...

We present a general framework whereby analysis of interior-point algorithms for semidefinite programming can be extended verbatim to optimization problems over all classes of symmetric cones ...

We discuss some extremality issues concerning the circumradius, the inradius, and the condition number of a closed convex cone in Rn. The condition number refers to the ratio between the circumradius ...