Mark Braverman has won the Abacus Medal for a mathematical approach to solving problems while sharing as little information as possible.
You are faced with a difficult problem, it is not easily solved. How do you feel? Well, if you are Avi Wigderson, one of the winners of the 2021 Abel Prize, you are very happy!
Maria Bruna has won a Whitehead Prize for finding a systematic way of simplifying complex systems.
In this podcast we explore how ants have helped humans to solve some very difficult problems.
Find out how these humble animals have inspired computer algorithms to solve complex real-world problems.
In time for pancake day here's a problem about flipping pancakes. It turns out to be surprisingly hard.
Daskalakis tells us about the work he is being honoured for, which involves complexity theory, game theory, online dating and traffic jams.
We talk to pioneering mathematician Stephen Cook, who came up with the concept of NP-complete problems, about his work, computer science, and artificial intelligence.