ANAHEIM — Ray Montgomery is old enough to remember when striking out was a bad thing. “It was literally like you were stoned and scorned,” said the Angels’ interim manager, who played in the majors ...

What began as an art of folding paper is now reshaping technology. This film explores how origami is transforming modern engineering. Missing this one pay date may be too much for Trump, Congress to ...

This repository provides MATLAB code to solve a rank-order assignment problem, matching N doctors with K hospitals based on doctor preferences. The implementation uses the Hungarian algorithm (see ...

Higher tariffs are often thought to present a problem to monetary policymakers at the Federal Reserve (Fed). Tariff shocks raise prices and reduce output and employment, which seems to push in ...

Using an advanced Monte Carlo method, Caltech researchers found a way to tame the infinite complexity of Feynman diagrams and solve the long-standing polaron problem, unlocking deeper understanding of ...

As quantum computing develops, scientists are working to identify tasks for which quantum computers have a clear advantage over classical computers. So far, researchers have only pinpointed a handful ...

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Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. The ability to solve complex problems effectively has become a defining factor for success.

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. For computer scientists, solving problems is a bit like mountaineering. First they must choose a problem to solve—akin to identifying a ...