Making Sudoku puzzles less puzzling

Thursday, October 11, 2012 - 15:00 in Mathematics & Economics

For anyone who has ever struggled while attempting to solve a Sudoku puzzle, mathematicians are coming to the rescue. They can not only explain why some Sudoku puzzles are harder than others, they have also developed a mathematical algorithm that solves Sudoku puzzles very quickly, without any guessing or backtracking.

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