Inspired by Curry’s observation, the mathematical logician William Alvin Howard discovered a deeper link between computation and logic in 1969, showing that running a computer program is a lot like ...

The goal of the “busy beaver” game is to find the longest-running computer program. Its pursuit has surprising connections to profound questions in math.

In just over a day, a powerful computer program accomplished a feat that took physicists centuries to complete: extrapolating the laws of motion from a pendulum’s swings. Developed by Cornell ...

COMP_SCI 212 or equivalent (Math 300) Description. The second part in the Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS) sequence covers mathematical topics of probability, linear algebra, ...

Cryptographic hash functions are programs that use a mathematical function, like an algorithm, to convert information to a hexadecimal form.