Back in the hazy olden days of the pre-2000s, navigating between two locations generally required someone to whip out a paper map and painstakingly figure out the most optimal route between those d… ...

In practice, many algorithms always seem to work efficiently. But in theory, there is no guarantee. In an arXiv preprint, researchers from the Kwan Group at the Institute of Science and Technology ...

In their 2019 paper Holm and Rotenberg found that some drawings provide a more advantageous starting position for inserting an edge than others. These “good” drawings are only a few flips away from ...