Generating a string of random numbers is easy. The hard part is proving that they’re random. As Dilbert creator Scott Adams once pointed out, “that’s the problem with randomness: you can never be sure ...

You’re at the checkout screen after an online shopping spree, ready to enter your credit card number. You type it in and instantly see a red error message ...

Prime numbers are all the rage these days. I can tell something’s up when random people start asking me about the randomness of primes—without even knowing that I’m a mathematician! In the past couple ...

A canonical problem in computer science is to find the shortest route to every point in a network. A new approach beats the ...

Google's John Mueller was asked in this morning's hangout at the 13:05 mark into the video about disclosing the number of quality algorithms they have running in search today. John Mueller said Google ...