Teamology: The Construction and Organization of Effective Teamsdemonstrates how psychiatrist C. G. Jung’s cognition theory, a cornerstone of modern personality typology, may be used to form and organize effective problem-solving teams through a novel quantitative transformation of numbers from...

The La Grange linear similarity transformation (completing the square) can be used to remove all cross-product terms from a quadratic form. It is shown that the La Grange transformation may be found conveniently by adapting the well-known Gauss elimination procedure for solving linear equations....

A minimax search plan is developed for locating the maximum of a unimodal function of one variable with a sequence of blocks of simultaneous function evaluations. The proposed "block search strategy" is described for any number of simultaneous function evaluations (experiments) and for any...