Every organism you have ever seen, every ecosystem you have ever walked through, is the ongoing output of an algorithm that ...

There’s No Algorithm for Human Connection in the Practice of Law Just as the biggest billboards and the firm with the most radio ads don’t win trials, technology alone doesn’t either. What ultimately ...

Explore how algorithms transform trading with strategies like arbitrage and HFT, and their impact on global markets, ...

Descriptive set theorists study the niche mathematics of infinity. Now, they’ve shown that their problems can be rewritten in the concrete language of algorithms. All of modern mathematics is built on ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

Abstract: The graph coloring problem involves coloring the nodes of a graph using the minimum number of colors such that no two adjacent nodes share the same color. This NP-hard problem has various ...

There is a new sorting algorithm a deterministic O(m log2/3 n)-time algorithm for single-source shortest paths (SSSP) on directed graphs with real non-negative edge weights in the comparison-addition ...