Some math conjectures and theorems and proofs can take on a profound, quasi-religious status as examples of the limits of human comprehension. TREE(3) is one of those examples. "You've got all these ...

Understand the principles of efficient algorithms for dealing with large scale data sets and be able to select appropriate algorithms for specific problems. Understand and be able to apply the main ...

What do a river, earthquakes and the internet have in common? If you asked statistics professor Ilya Zaliapin, he would tell you the answer is tree graphs (or, simply – trees). “Research-wise, I am ...

For thousands of years, philosophers have pondered cardinality: knowing “how many.” Using a series of crude estimates, the ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes worked out the approximate number of ...

An oceanographer buys a piece of whale flesh at a market in Japan. The clerk assures her the meat comes from a Baird’s beaked whale, which is legal to hunt under certain circumstances. The scientist ...

GraphViz is a collection of tools for manipulating graph structures and generating graph layouts. Graphs can be either directed or undirected. GraphViz offers both graphical and command-line tools. A ...