‘Higher-order functions’ is a fancy term for functions that take other functions as arguments or that return functions. Very powerful! Last week, I casually dropped the term “higher-order function” ...

Functions are fundamental to code organization; they exist in all higher order programming languages. Generally, functional programming means using functions to the best effect for creating clean and ...

Lecture Notes-Monograph Series, Vol. 32, Selected Proceedings of the Symposium on Estimating Functions (1997), pp. 105-114 (10 pages) Estimating functions provide inference methods based on a model ...

A new way of mapping activity and connections between different regions of the brain has revealed fresh insights into how higher order functions like language, thought and attention, are organized. A ...

Classes of set functions defined by the positivity or negativity of the higher-order derivatives of their pseudo-Boolean polynomial representations generalize those of monotone, supermodular, and ...