One of the most classic algorithmic problems deals with calculating the shortest path between two points. A more complicated variant of the problem is when the route traverses a changing network - ...

One April afternoon in 2003, a reclusive Russian mathematician -- his hair overgrown, his beard and nails untrimmed for ages -- arrived at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to deliver a talk.

In 2011, an anonymous 4chan poster asked how many episodes of a particular anime they would have to watch if they wanted to watch the minimum episodes in every possible way. The problem with this is ...