Playing Minesweeper without the old-fashioned grid
January 14, 2022How network science can help you play this fun new variant of the classic computer game.
Abel Prize Laureates Lectures
In the end of January the Dutch Academy of Sciences and Arts (KMAW) organizes the "Evening of the Abel prize",
Reading in the Christmas holiday
Interview with Marjan Sjerps: Mathematicians have a way of thinking that I really like
The Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI) has a great deal of in-house knowledge in the field of forensic products
Light work(s): Optical Networks – communication fabric of our society
On Friday 24th of September Professor Ton Koonen received a royal distinction “Ridder in the Orde van de Nederlandse Leeuw”…
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…