Global optimisation of sum of ratios problems represents a formidable challenge in contemporary applied mathematics and operations research. Such problems involve objective functions that are ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The prefix sum problem in computer science is a popular programming puzzle used to test the ...

For all of the recent strides we’ve made in the math world—like a supercomputer finally solving the Sum of Three Cubes problem that puzzled mathematicians for 65 years—we’re forever crunching ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. The simplest ideas in mathematics can also be the most perplexing. Take addition. It’s a straightforward operation: One of the first ...