mathematics
This New Algorithm for Sorting Books or Files Is Close to Perfection
Albert Wagner
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Computer scientists often deal with abstract problems that are hard ...
Scientists Establish the Best Algorithm for Traversing a Map
Albert Wagner
“It’s a great algorithm,” said Erik Demaine, a computer scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “It’s very fast, simple, ...
Everything You See Is a Computational Process, If You Know How to Look
Albert Wagner
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In the movie Oppenheimer, Niels Bohr challenges the physicist early in his ...
