Light work(s): Optical Networks – communication fabric of our society
November 19, 2021On Friday 24th of September Professor Ton Koonen received a royal distinction “Ridder in the Orde van de Nederlandse Leeuw” during the symposium “Optical Networks – communication fabric of our society”, preceding his valedictory lecture “Light work(s)”.
Percolation theory: about math and gossip
It is some time now I wanted to write about a mathematical result I think is really beautiful. It comes…
Enigma: a complexity titan
In times of war, secure communication can be the difference between life and death, or even winning or losing a…
Cycling to 57,912 National Monuments in the Netherlands
In March 2021 the largest roadmap instance of the traveling salesman problem ever was solved.
A big breakthrough in the Euclidean Travelling Salesman Problem
Recently there has been a breakthrough in the field of algorithms for geometric network problems, concerning the complexity of the…
Sociomaths: The maths of living apart together
Do you recognise the expression "six degrees of separation"? Through our relationships with others we are only six steps away…
DNA self-assembly gives birth to new mathematics
At this very moment, the emergent science of DNA self-assembly is giving birth to a new field of mathematics that…
Summer reads part 4: From physiology to finance and the quantum world
Summer reads part 3: Stories with a mathematical twist
In this third post of our summer reads series we gather articles with an unexpected mathematical twist.