Imaginary numbers are a reality
We need natural numbers to count the days, rational numbers to measure the portions of cake we have eaten, real…
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Playing with Colors Part 2: An open problem related to graph colouring
In Part 1 of this series on graph coloring, all the graphs that we saw were finite, i.e., they had…
Playing with Colors
Part 1: Learn about applied and theoretical aspects of graph coloring: a tool that helps us design exam schedules or…
Can algorithms learn to price collusively?
This is a question I have been thinking about for the last two years. In this article, I will give…
MO-together and not alone! How networks can help fundraising in the no-profit sector
Back in 2015, I joined the Movember health movement, a movement that you probably have heard of having something related…
Start to jet lag behind. Moving to fairer competitions.
It is the beginning of June 2018, when the Italian men's volleyball squad wins the first 3 matches of the…
Eigenvalues to the rescue
On a quiet afternoon, professor Meth is working in her office in Leiden on some tantalizing mathematics problems. Suddenly, someone…
What have Donald Trump, an epidemiologist and a rock in common?
How do you decide who is the most important?
Imagine you’re in a remote village and only have a limited number of vaccines to distribute to protect the community…