In the 17th century, a Dutch draper named Anton van Leeuwenhoek used a small handmade microscope to peer into a world previously unseen by the human eye. Thus he discovered microorganisms and gave ...

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1. The P v. NP problem asks whether all problems whose solutions can be verified in some time can also be solved in a comparable length of time. What is this length of time called for the purpose of ...

If mathematicians were to resolve computer science’s 'P versus NP' question, the result could be priceless—they’d be cracking most online-security systems, revolutionizing science and even ...