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 ...

In 1986, then-Fort Wayne Mayor Win Moses Jr. proclaimed March 10-15 to be Fort Wayne Graph Theory Week and urged “all citizens, community organizations, scholars, and conference participants, to join ...

Let’s say you’re planning your next party and agonizing over the guest list. To whom should you send invitations? What combination of friends and strangers is the right mix? It turns out ...

Jacob Holm was flipping through proofs from an October 2019 research paper he and colleague Eva Rotenberg—an associate professor in the department of applied mathematics and computer science at the ...

The legendary graph isomorphism problem may be harder than a 2015 result seemed to suggest. “In Laci Babai, you have one of the most legendary and fearsome theoretical computer scientists there ever ...

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 ...