Lance Fortnow on the current status and future outlook of solving the P-NP problem.

This is a graphical user interface (GUI) application built with Python and Tkinter, designed to solve linear programming problems using SciPy's optimization library (linprog). Generates a plot of the ...

We are moving from a world of institutional dependency to one of personal responsibility. The question is no longer, “What can we do for people?” but, “How can we equip people to do more for ...

Gemini 2.5 Deep Think has scored well in math competitions, and a version of it is now available for those who fork over $250 a month. Jon covers artificial intelligence. He previously led CNET's home ...

Some readers are fed up with me! “Don’t guilt trip me” is a refrain I heard from many readers of my recent columns from West Africa and South Sudan about children dying because of cuts in American ...

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Standard computer implementations of Dantzig's simplex method for linear programming are based upon forming the inverse of the basic matrix and updating the inverse ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. For computer scientists, solving problems is a bit like mountaineering. First they must choose a problem to solve—akin to identifying a ...

Professor of History, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University As I begin this review sitting in a Canberra cafe, there are two blokes on the next table complaining ...

Recently, a friend asked for help with a tricky problem: they were staging a play, and the script had a large number of characters. They didn’t want to hire an actor for each role, and while they ...

Quantum computers could soon be able to solve genuinely useful mathematical problems faster than classical computers, claims quantum computing firm Quantinuum. It would be the first example of these ...