Jacob Holm was flipping through proofs from an October 2019 research paper he and colleague Eva Rotenberg—an associate professor in the department of applied mathematics and computer science at the ...

Dijkstra’s algorithm was long thought to be the most efficient way to find a graph’s best routes. Researchers have now proved that it’s “universally optimal.” The Quanta Newsletter ...

A pair of mathematicians solved a legendary question about the proportion of vertices in a graph with an odd number of connections. “It’s a bit of a surprise, at least for me, that such a combination ...

Understanding the network organization of the brain has been a long-standing challenge for neuroscience. In the past decade, developments in graph theory have provided many new methods for ...