Greatness was always expected of Ken Ono. But as he struggled with his parents’ expectations, he found solace and inspiration in the life of two-time college dropout — and mathematical genius — Srinivasa Ramanujan, the subject of the film The Man Who Knew Infinity.
The biological world is computational at its core, argues computer scientist Leslie Valiant.
A major advance in computational complexity reveals deep connections between the classes of problems that computers can — and can’t — possibly do.