Researchers thought that they were five years away from solving a math riddle from the 1980's. In reality, and without knowing, they had nearly cracked the problem and had just given away much of the ...

Graph partitioning and bisection problems occupy a central position in combinatorial optimisation and theoretical computer science. These issues involve dividing a graph’s vertex set into distinct ...

In the race toward practical quantum computers and networks, photons—fundamental particles of light—hold intriguing possibilities as fast carriers of information at room temperature. Researchers at ...

University of California (UC) San Diego mathematicians Jacques Verstraete and Sam Mattheus have solved a puzzling Ramsey theory problem that's had little progress since the great Paul Erdös made some ...

This story includes an interview with Facebook engineer Avery Ching. Every computer science student learns the basics of graph theory–a set of mathematical abstractions for modeling networks and the ...