Computational Complexity

Computational Complexity and other fun stuff in math and computer science from Lance Fortnow and Bill Gasarch

Sunday, November 09, 2025

A Presidential Trivia Question, how I tried to solve it

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        A friend of mine told me that in the last six months, the last grandchild of one of our former presidents (who had already passed aw...
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Thursday, November 06, 2025

The Complexity Argument for Capitalism

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We're seeing an attack on capitalism on both ends of the political spectrum with with the election of Democratic Socialist Zhoran Mamdan...
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Monday, November 03, 2025

Did Euclid exist? Is it okay to quote people that did not exist?

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  The following excerpt from Abrahim Ladha's comment on Lance's post about AI and intro theory caught my attention: ----------------...
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Wednesday, October 29, 2025

AI and the Power of Nonuniform Circuits

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The advances in artificial intelligence have changed the way we think about computing. For today's post, how nonuniformity plays a much ...
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Sunday, October 26, 2025

Bill's Bad Advice

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 I sometimes give the following advice for research which I label Bill's Bad Advice . We will later see who it might be good advice for....
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Thursday, October 23, 2025

AI and Intro Theory

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This fall, for the first time at Illinois Tech, I'm teaching Introduction to Theory of Computation. While I've taught a variation of...
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Monday, October 20, 2025

Sept 16, 2025 was Pythagorean Day

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      Several people emailed me that September 16, 2025 ---written as  9-16-25  in the US---represents the integer side lengths of a right t...
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Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Fall Jobs Post 2025

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Each fall I try to predict the theory computer science faculty job market to come and give suggestions to those going after them. Get set fo...
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