Researchers nearly allowed the solution to a math riddle to slip away
Monday, August 17, 2020 - 11:30
in Mathematics & Economics
Computer science researchers from the University of Copenhagen and the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) thought that they were five years away from solving a math riddle from the 1980's. In reality, and without knowing, they had nearly cracked the problem and had just given away much of the solution in a research article. The solution could be used to improve tomorrow's phones and computers.