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A Master of the Traveling Salesperson Problem Finds His Own Path

July 23, 2026

Shayan Oveis Gharan has won the Abacus Medal for using tools from across mathematics to boost the power of algorithms.

The Scientist Who Developed a New Way to Understand Communication

July 5, 2022

Mark Braverman has spent his career translating thorny problems into the language of information complexity.

A Poet of Computation Who Uncovers Distant Truths

August 1, 2018

The theoretical computer scientist Constantinos Daskalakis has won the Rolf Nevanlinna Prize for explicating core questions in game theory and machine learning.

A Grand Vision for the Impossible

August 12, 2014

Subhash Khot’s bold conjecture is helping mathematicians explore the precise limits of computation.