Computer Scientists Discover Limits of Major Research Algorithm The most widely used technique for finding the largest or smallest values of a math function turns out to be a fundamentally difficult ...

Algorithmic complexity, a cornerstone of theoretical computer science, examines the intrinsic resource requirements of computational problems and the limits of what can be efficiently computed.

A major advance in computational complexity reveals deep connections between the classes of problems that computers can — and can’t — possibly do.

Complexity theory is a zoo of “complexity classes” – collections of computational problems – of which MIP * and RE are but two. The 165-page paper shows that these two classes are the same.