Discover the mysteries of the P versus NP problem and the recent proof by Vinay Deolalikar that could change computational complexity forever. The P versus NP question concerns the speed at which a ...

According to computational complexity theory, mathematical problems have different levels of difficulty in the context of their solvability. While a classical computer can solve some problems (P) in ...

When computer scientists hang out at cocktail parties, they're apt to chat, among other things, about the single most important unsolved problem in computer science: the question, Does P = NP?

Source: Darren Edwards What if one of the biggest unsolved problems in mathematics is not just about numbers or computers, but about observers like you and me? This isn’t a proposed solution to P vs ...

If mathematicians were to resolve computer science’s 'P versus NP' question, the result could be priceless—they’d be cracking most online-security systems, revolutionizing science and even ...

The big mathematics news of the week was, of course, Kumar Eswaran’s claim to have proved the Riemann Hypothesis. No doubt his paper supporting the claim will be examined minutely, as it must be.

Last week, HP Labs mathematician Vinay Deolalikar started circulating a startling paper that claims to have solved the preeminent open problem in computer science, known as P = NP. Er, more accurately ...

A computer scientist claims to have solved one of the world’s most complex and intractable mathematical problems by proving that P≠NP. By Alastair Jamieson and Alastairjamieson 11 August 2010 • 8:00am ...