Computational Complexity

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

Wednesday, July 22, 2026

Complexity Class of the Week: \(L_2^P\)

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Back in the 90s when I was a young professor at the University of Chicago, we would have a Complexity Class of the Week  where I would take ...
Sunday, July 19, 2026

Bipartite Perfect Matching in Deterministic NC

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Nutan Limaye and Thore Husfeldt guest post on the new deterministic parallel algorithm for bipartite perfect matching by Abhranil Chatterje...
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Wednesday, July 15, 2026

Herman Chernoff (1923-2026)

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Herman Chernoff passed away on July 6, 5 days after turning 103. Ravi Boppana wrote a guest post about Chernoff's life for his 100th b...
Sunday, July 12, 2026

2... 1/2 THEN 3... 1/6 THEN 5 ....1/15 and so on. And So On?

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The excellent graphic novel Prime Suspects: The Anatomy of Integers and Permutations by Andrew Granville and Jennifer Granville,  illustrate...
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Thursday, July 09, 2026

Wither/Whither the ACM

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Two editorials in the July issue of the Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery ask about the decay and future of the org...
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Monday, July 06, 2026

Extreme cases of clickbait!

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I recently read Alan Alda's first memoir  Never have your dog stuffed   which was pretty good. Hence I began looking for more informatio...
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Wednesday, July 01, 2026

The True Method

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Harry Lewis pointed Bill and me to Gottfried Leibniz's 1677 treatise  The True Method  (translated from the original French ). I highly ...
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Sunday, June 28, 2026

Guest Post by Peter Brass on the new NSF guidelines

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Peter Brass is a prior NSF theory director. He has written an intelligent guest post on the new NSF guidelines that we present here. You...
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