Although mergesort is an algorithm that is frequently glossed over in textbooks, it provides fertile ground for planting ideas about algorithm analysis in the minds of students. A...
The soundness error of a PCP verifier is the probability (usually denoted ) that the verifier accepts an incorrect input. We are interested in the smallest possible values of for...
Two long-open problems have been solved: (1) every sufficiently large planar point set in general position contains the vertices of an empty hexagon; (2) every finite collection o...