A mathematician was keen to forecast the evolution of the COVID epidemic. Instead, he ended up solving a problem which had troubled computer scientists for decades. During the corona epidemic many of ...

During the pandemic, many people became amateur mathematicians. How quickly would the number of hospitalized patients rise, and when would herd immunity be achieved? Professional mathematicians were ...

One of the oldest problems in computer science was just solved by a single cell. A group of researchers from Tokyo’s Keio University set out to use an amoeba to solve the Traveling Salesman Problem, a ...