A new proof reveals the answer to the decades-old “moving sofa” problem. It highlights how even the simplest optimization ...
Quantum calculations amount to sophisticated estimates. But in 1931, Hans Bethe intuited precisely how a chain of particles ...
A young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data structures called hash tables can be much faster ...
Richard Green is a freelance mathematics writer and a professor of mathematics at the University of Colorado Boulder. He has a degree from the University of Oxford and a Ph.D. from the University ...