Most of you have used a navigation app like Google Maps for your travels at some point. These apps rely on algorithms that compute shortest paths through vast networks. Now imagine scaling that task ...

Coxeter theory investigates groups generated by reflections and the geometric structures arising from their actions, such as root systems and Dynkin diagrams. This body of work underpins vast areas of ...

Two computer scientists found — in the unlikeliest of places — just the idea they needed to make a big leap in graph theory. This past October, as Jacob Holm and Eva Rotenberg were thumbing through a ...

With the rapid development of mobile networks, location-based services have become deeply embedded in people's daily lives. Although the k-NN search problem has obtained a lot of research results, the ...

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 ...