In 1960, Andrey Kolmogorov posed a seemingly impossible challenge at a seminar at Moscow State University: could there be a ...

In 1994, MIT professor of applied mathematics Peter Shor developed a groundbreaking quantum computing algorithm capable of factoring numbers (that is, finding the prime numbers for any integer N ...

For 100 years, mathematicians have been searching for an algorithm that solves the Traveling Salesman Problem. The Clay Mathematics Institute has even offered a sizable $1 million reward to anyone ...