In 1960, a 23-year-old Soviet mathematician named Anatoly Karatsuba stunned the world of mathematics with a revolutionary discovery: a faster way to multiply large numbers. Known today as Karatsuba’s ...

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

The act of knowing algorithms plays an important role in procedural fluency—recognizing a problem, flexibly choosing a strategy to solve it, and executing it—but it is often confused with ...

At issue was an algorithm called Q* (pronounced “Q-star”), which has allegedly been shown to solve certain grade-school-level math problems that it hasn’t seen before.

Patrick Jaillet, Xin Lu, Online Stochastic Matching: New Algorithms with Better Bounds, Mathematics of Operations Research, Vol. 39, No. 3 (August 2014), pp. 624-646 ...

CDN Math What is CDN math anyway? The most common math for content delivery, at least from the paying customer's perspective, is billing algorithms. These aren't new by any means, having been around ...