Linear codes have long been central to the development of error‐correcting methods in communication and data storage, while matroid theory provides a unifying combinatorial framework for understanding ...

A team of mathematicians has solved a problem first posed more than 40 years ago that has confounded modern mathematicians, until now. A team of mathematicians has solved a problem first posed more ...

Petabyte-scale distributed storage systems are currently transitioning to erasure codes to achieve higher storage efficiency. Classical codes like reed-solomon are highly sub-optimal for distributed ...

Tropical algebraic geometry is a young but rapidly developing field that translates intricate algebraic and geometric problems into combinatorial ones. In this setting, algebraic varieties (that is, ...

WATERLOO, Ont (Wednesday, August 28, 2013) – A team of mathematicians has solved a problem first posed more than 40 years ago that has confounded modern mathematicians, until now. Professor Jim Geelen ...