Computational Complexity

There is a recent story and a request for a petition signing that SEEMS like we should support it, but rather than repeat the story, here ar...

Aravind Srinivasan: I have a great idea for a Blog Post! Bill Gasarch: What is it! Aravind Srinivasan: We all know where Scott A...

&pi, the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle , is one of the most important constants in Math. However, &pi could...

This is the 1000th posting on the complexity blogs. 958 were when Lance was running it and the rest (I'll let you do the math) were whe...

The job market for theorists is rough, and for logicians even rougher. Hence some seek employment outside of academia, outside of research ...

When I won't be in email contact for a while I set up a vacation program so that if someone emails me they get a message. I used to use ...

(Guest post from Shiva Kintali. All capital letters, italics, and boldface are from Shiva.) A request to FOCS/STOC PC members Hi All, I...

The game of checkers seems to have been solved. Its a draw. See here or here if you don't mind seeing an ad for low cholestrol cooking...

A PhD Student, Michal Kouril, found a new van der Waerden number, W(6.2)=1132. See here for details. I had a list of known VDW numbers in a...

The following is a quote from Comedian Jerry Seinfeld. The source is Seinfeld Universe: The Entire Domain by Greg Gattuso (Publisher of No...

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A blog entry of Lance's on open problems noted that it would be good to have a repository of open problems. Perhaps a wiki or something...

(Guest Post by Ken Regan) pdf file available here Computational complexity theory is the study of information flow and the effort requi...

On the post Math Terms used in Real Life- Good or Bad I mentioned the following: On 24, season two, there was a line `we can't break ...

As a collector of Novelty songs and a math-person I was morally obligated to purchase Musical Fruitcake by The Klein Four , a band consist...

Collapsing Degrees Guest post by Stuart Kurtz and Jim Royer. Bill Gasarch asked us to write an article about Collapsing Degrees, in ...

For more information on Steve Mahaney's untimely demise see here and here is how you can contribute to help honor his memory. Maha...

Guest post by Lance Fortnow I am breaking weblog silence to bring the very sad news of the loss of a co-author, good friend and great comp...

In 1985 I was 120% sure that P\ne NP. Why? Scott gave a nice list of reasons here . In 1988 I was down to 110% sure that P\ne NP. Why?...

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC- they stole our acronym!) new proposal for grants solication right here . This proposal calls for n...