Mathematicians Outwit a Hidden Number ‘Conspiracy’
Decades ago, a mathematician posed a warmup problem for difficult questions about prime numbers. It turned out to be just as difficult to solve—until ..
Decades ago, a mathematician posed a warmup problem for difficult questions about prime numbers. It turned out to be just as difficult to solve—until ..
A surprising new solution to the famous “36 officers puzzle” offers a novel way of encoding quantum information. ..
The n-queens problem is about finding how many different ways queens can be placed on a chessboard so that none attack each other. ..
Mathematician Ian Stewart explains the twisty history of combinatorial optimization. ..
Fifty years ago, three mathematicians came up with a graph theory problem that they thought they might solve on the spot. A team has finally settled it. ..