Definition/Definiteness: An algorithm must be a clearly described process, with each step in its instructions laying out precisely what it does to reach the endpoint.

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.

As well as knowing history, Kitagawa and Revell are expert explainers of mathematics. Anyone who has never been sure what an algorithm is can understand the concept here, and their account of ...