A Puzzling Diversion I recently found myself playing with a plastic sliding puzzle, of the kind that children often get as a gift from a party bag. It had an image on it, and 15 pieces that could … 04. May 2020 | By Katie Steckles | 1 comment
Explaining the P vs. NP conjecture – a different approach The P vs. NP conjecture in complexity theory is one of the most prominent open problems in mathematics and computer science. There are many reasons for this. It is reasonably easy to get an intuitive … 27. Apr 2020 | By Demian Goos | 1 comment
Quantum computers are knocking on our door Quantum computers promised to take the world by storm, and take computation power (and security) to new heights. Have they delivered? Read more 16. Apr 2020 | By Andrei Mihai | 1 comment
Maths to get you through the coronavirus crisis During this global pandemic, mathematicians and statisticians are providing a vital service in the form of mathematical modelling, in a worldwide effort to try to understand and fight the disease. But you may find mathematics … 09. Apr 2020 | By Katie Steckles | 1 comment
Women Pioneers of Mathematics This month is Women in History Month, and 8th March was International Women’s Day. In celebration of all the brilliant women who’ve made mathematics what it is, here’s a celebration of mathematical firsts – pioneers … 25. Mar 2020 | By Katie Steckles | 4 comments
How Data Science Can Help Us Understand (and Fight) Wildfires The 2019-2020 Australian wildfires burned an estimated 186,000 square kilometers (72,000 square miles), ravaging the country and killing up to 1 billion animals. In California, the 2019 wildfire season ravaged over 1,000 square kilometers, often … 17. Mar 2020 | By Andrei Mihai | 0 comments
John Hopcroft on the teaching of today and tomorrow John Hopcroft is an ACM A.M Turing Award laureate, which he won in 1986 together with Robert E. Tarjan for fundamental achievements in the design and analysis of algorithms and data structures. He distinguished himself … 10. Mar 2020 | By Demian Goos | 1 comment
Picking and choosing In a post last April, I described some of the mathematics behind combinatorics – the branch of mathematics concerned with counting all the different ways to do something. Often, this kind of maths appears in … 02. Mar 2020 | By Katie Steckles | 7 comments
Nothing I try to find a varied range of topics to write about for this blog, but sometimes you run out of inspiration and find you have nothing to write about. Luckily, this has happened to … 20. Feb 2020 | By Katie Steckles | 5 comments
Aldo Spizzichino exhibition at the HLF 2017 Parallel to the Heidelberg Laureate Forum, the Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation organizes an exhibition related to mathematics or computer science, as part of the accompanying program of the HLF. In 2019 it was the mathematics … 11. Feb 2020 | By Constanza Rojas-Molina | 3 comments
